The resolve, two months ago, at the Cape, to come back once more was, it is true, rather sudden, and as I see now, not well considered.

But I am in earnest in asking.' 'And I in declining.

With all good feeling and all kindness, let me say that I am quite opposed to the idea of marrying a second time.' 'Well, no harm has been done,' he answered, with the same subdued and tender humorousness that he had shown on such occasions in early life.
'If you really won't accept me, I must put up with it, I suppose.' His eye fell on the clock as he spoke.

'Had you any notion that it was so late ?' he asked.

'How absorbed I have been!' She accompanied him to the hall, helped him to put on his overcoat, and let him out of the house herself.
'Good-night,' said Barnet, on the doorstep, as the lamp shone in his face.