'And now tell me about herself. Has she seen him often?'

'Why, Mr Wharton, he has dined here, in the house, over and over
again. I thought you were encouraging him.'

'Heavens and earth!'

'Of course she has seen him. When a man dines at a house he is
bound to call. Of course he has called,--I don't know how
often. And she has met him round the corner.'--"Round the
corner" in Manchester Square, meant Mrs Roby's house in Berkeley
Street.--'Last Sunday they were at the Zoo together. Dick got
them tickets. I thought you knew about it.'

'Do you mean that my daughter went to the Zoological Gardens
alone with this man?' the father asked in dismay.

'Dick was with them. I should have gone, only I had a headache.
Did you not know that she went?'

'Yes,--I heard about the Gardens. But I heard nothing about the
man.'

'I thought, Mr Wharton, you were all in his favour.'

'I am not at all in his favour. I dislike him particularly. For
anything I know he may have sold pencils about the streets like
any other Jew-boy.'

'He goes to church, just as you do,--that is, if he goes