Afterwards

e was arranging two dinner parties. "She will be in her el

e might even expect to be included," said John Leslie. "Do you k

to the lawn; "you might have some consideration for an af

uliar to husbands consulted on domestic affairs; "he was telling me this morning in the train that he had just finish

ye on him and bolt into thirds to escape; he gave a morning on

lie; "he's perfectly straight in business, and that is

you get amusement out of odd people; but every one has not your taste for the tiresome.

the sailings of the Atlantic liners since '80," and Leslie lay back to enjoy the pa

through the room. I can still hear him: 'the Columba six days,

have retreated so soon, for he gave the express trains of England a little later

erday that quiet, steady men rush out of the room at the sound of his voice

, and it would be a shame to pass her over; bu

ircle to live up to Marsden, and I hear that he has got up the temperature

he's simply possessed by a didactic devil, and ought never to have marrie

nce, that Mrs. Marsden does not appreciate her husband? You never can tell what a woman sees in a man. Perhaps

o Mr. Marsden by her people. Trixy has six hundred a year settled on her, and they were afraid of fortune-hunters.

d he is scarcely what you would call a brilliant raconteur; but he se

a bore all her days? What a contrast between her brother and her husband, f

one believes a word he says, and I think that he has never got a discharge from his last bankrupt

for business; he ought to have been a writer, and I know he was asked to join the staff of

s was t

ear T

. Write instantly to say you accept; it is an age since I've seen you, and my husband is absolutely devoted to Mr. Marsden. He was tell

affecti

ence

n evening on a set of stupid people, and if he can't tear himself

bring Godfrey to take care of you, and t