miss it this morning.'

'I'm afraid I shall have to order the cart, and I like to get a walk
if possible in the morning.'

'I can walk it in twelve minutes.'

'I shouldn't like to walk it in this broiling sun in fifteen. ... By
the way, have you looked at the glass this morning?'

'No; I am tired of looking at it. It never moves from "set fair."'

'It is intolerably hot--can you sleep at night?'

'No; I didn't get to sleep till after two. I lay awake thinking of
Mrs. Fargus.'

'I never saw you talk to a woman like that before. I wonder what you
see in her. She's very plain. I daresay she's very clever, but she
never says anything--at least not to me.'

'She talks fast enough on her own subjects. You didn't try to draw her
out. She requires drawing out. ... But it wasn't so much Mrs. Fargus
as having a woman in the house. It makes one's life so different; one
feels more at ease. I think I ought to have a companion.'

'Have a middle-aged lady here, who would bore me with her conversation
all through dinner when I come home from the City tired and worn out!'

'But you don't think that your conversation when you "come home from