He has never had anything but telegrams--three telegrams--that I sent him in America about a pair of slippers that he had left at our house and that I did n't know what to do with.

Captain Lovelock's slippers are no trifle to have on one's hands--on one's feet, I suppose I ought to say.

For telegrams the spelling does n't matter; the people at the office correct it--or if they don't you can put it off on them.

I never see anything nowadays but Gordon's back," she went on, as they took their places at table--"his noble broad back, as he sits writing his letters.

That 's my principal view of my husband.