Afterwards

ing-room. I hope your husband is duly grateful to me for allowing him off this social ordeal

cts or not so long as people will listen to him, and I'm sure he was

stupidity of his partner, who was quite a common man, and could not carry out Godfrey's plans. My husband might have helped the firm through their difficulty but he was quite obs

e happened to be at the Metropole one wee

l change for a man like him. He has always been very proud, and much petted by people. The poor fellow has never been able to find a suitable post since, although he spends days in the city

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s absolutely between you and me, one must have some confidant-Godfrey made some remark in fu

ter dressed," said Mrs. Leslie

frey knew what he meant. It was cruel in the circumstances, for many men spend far more on their clothes than Godfrey. He simpl

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on him, but it is only a third of what it used to be-something to do with investments has reduced it-and Mr. Marsden woul

d Mrs. Leslie was inclined for once to defend this abused

. Marsden is so careful and saving, always speaking as if we were poor and had t

have come to Putney. When Tom went out to Alexandria, my brother simply took our present house and had it f

ur house in his absence," and Mrs. Leslie began to get new v

e boy off to Scarborough for a month; and he is never ha

the sta

g from some stuffy old book every evening, Dumas' History, I think, till

r mind improved. You ought to be proud of your husband; most men sleep after dinner with an evening paper in t