So she puts it in when she can--a little here, a little there, and it ends by making up a considerable amount.

The fact of our distinct establishments--which has, all the same, everything in its favour," Charlotte hastened to declare, "makes her really see more of him than when they had the same house.

To make sure she doesn't fail of it she's always arranging for it--which she didn't have to do while they lived together.

But she likes to arrange," Charlotte steadily proceeded; "it peculiarly suits her; and the result of our separate households is really, for them, more contact and more intimacy.

To-night, for instance, has been practically an arrangement.