Anything more utterly different from what I told him we wanted I couldn't imagine.

If he doesn't manage any better about his business than he has done about this, it will be a perfect failure." "Well, well, let's hope he'll be more circumspect about that," her husband returned, with ironical propitiation.

"But I don't think it's Fulkerson's fault altogether.

Perhaps it's the house-agents'.

They're a very illusory generation.