morning. Then I will see you home to St. Albans in the evening, and
we shall have another dear delightful week end. I think of nothing
else, and I count the hours. Now please to manage it, and don't let
anything stop you. You know that you can always get your way. Oh
yes, you can, miss! I know.

We shall meet at the bookstall at Charing Cross railway station at
one o'clock, but if anything should go wrong, send me a wire to the
Club. Then we can do some shopping together, and have some fun also.
Tell your mother that we shall be back in plenty of time for dinner.
Make another tart, and I shall eat it. Things are slack at the
office just now, and I could be spared for a few days.

So you have had a fish-slice. It is so strange, because on that very
day I had my first present, and it was a fish-slice also. We shall
have fish at each end when we give a dinner. If we get another fish-
slice, then we shall give a fish-dinner--or keep one of the slices to
give to your friend Nelly Sheridan when SHE gets married. They will
always come in useful. And I have had two more presents. One is a
Tantalus spirit-stand from my friends in the office. The other is a
pair of bronzes from the cricket club. They got it up without my
knowing anything about it, and I was amazed when a deputation came up
to my rooms with them last night. 'May your innings be long and your
partnership unbroken until you each make a hundred not out.' That
was the inscription upon a card.

I have something very grave to tell you. I've been going over my
bills and things, and I owe ever so much more than I thought. I have
always been so careless, and never known exactly how I stood. It did
not matter when one was a bachelor, for one always felt that one