"I'm very glad for you, Belle, dear--but--what an endless nuisance it all is--don't you think so ?" "Nuisance! It's slow death! to me at least," Mrs.Porne answered.

"But I don't see why you should mind.

I thought Madam Weatherstone ran that--palace, of yours, and you didn't have any trouble at all." "Oh yes, she runs it.

I couldn't get along with her at all if she didn't.

That's her life.