Will you have a glass of sherry ?--no.

Then shall we join Lady Honoria ?" This speech quite crushed the vulgar but not ill-meaning Saint, and Geoffrey was sorry for it a moment after he had made it.

But he was weary and out of temper.

Why did his wife bring such people to the house?
Very shortly afterwards their guest took his leave, reflecting that Bingham was a conceited ass, and altogether too much for him.

"And I don't believe that he has got a thousand a year," he reflected to himself, "and the title is his wife's.