Poor old dear! He's arrived at that pathetic period of a man's life when almost any really blond girl still in her teens switches him into a second state of adolescence and makes him a most ridiculous object--what the novelists call the 'Forty-nine feeling,' I believe." Bennett brought the lemonade and hurried away before his memory could be put to a further strain.

"Tell me about Joan Gray," said Mrs.
Jekyll, letting out her line.

"There's probably no truth in it, but I hear that she and Martin have agreed to differ.

How quickly these romantic love matches burn themselves out.

I always say that a marriage made in Heaven breaks up far sooner than one made on earth.