'Where does she live ?' Barnet told him, and added that, if Downe should think of her as suitable, he would do well to call as soon as possible, or she might be on the wing.

'If you do see her,' he said, 'it would be advisable not to mention my name.

She is rather stiff in her ideas of me, and it might prejudice her against a course if she knew that I recommended it.' Downe promised to give the subject his consideration, and nothing more was said about it just then.

But when Barnet rose to go, which was not till nearly bedtime, he reminded Downe of the suggestion and went up the street to his own solitary home with a sense of satisfaction at his promising diplomacy in a charitable cause..