Mr.Keller asked him jestingly if he was going to be married.

In the intoxication of happiness that possessed him, he was quite reckless; he actually retorted by a joke on the sore subject of the employment of women! "Who knows what may happen," he cried gaily, "when we have young ladies in the office for clerks ?" Mr.Keller was so angry that he kept silence through the whole of our meal.

When Mr.
Engelman left the room I slipped out after him.
"You are going to Madame Fontaine's," I said.
He smirked and smiled.

"Just a little evening visit, David.

Aha! you young men are not to have it all your own way." He laid his hand tenderly on the left breast-pocket of his coat.