Geoffrey told the coachman to stop at the first telegraph office and, getting out of the carriage, wired to Beatrice, "In by ten votes." "Who have you been telegraphing to, Geoffrey ?" asked Lady Honoria.
"I telegraphed to Miss Granger," he answered.
"Ah! So you still keep up a correspondence with that pupil teacher girl." "Yes, I do.

I wish that I had a few more such correspondents." "Indeed.

You are easy to please.

I thought her one of the most disagreeable young women whom I ever met." "Then it does not say much for your taste, Honoria." His wife made no further remark, but she had her thoughts.

Honoria possessed good points: among others she was not a jealous person; she was too cold and too indifferent to be jealous.