I believe I have put a stop to that." "Then what is it, my dear, that you want me to do ?" Lady Arabella paused a minute before she replied.

The game which she now had to play was not very easy; she knew, or thought she knew, that her husband, in his heart of hearts, much preferred his friend to the wife of his bosom, and that he would, if he could, shuffle out of noticing the doctor's iniquities.

It behoved her, therefore, to put them forward in such a way that they must be noticed.
"I suppose, Mr Gresham, you do not wish that Frank should marry the girl ?" "I do not think there is the slightest chance of such a thing; and I am quite sure that Dr Thorne would not encourage it." "But I tell you, Mr Gresham, that he says he will encourage it." "Oh, you have misunderstood him." "Of course; I always misunderstand everything.

I know that.

I misunderstood it when I told you how you would distress yourself if you took those nasty hounds." "I have had other troubles more expensive than the hounds," said the poor squire, sighing.
"Oh, yes; I know what you mean; a wife and family are expensive, of course.