"You admit that it is 'rum.'" And this indeed fixed again, for a moment, his intention.

"Has Charlotte complained of the want of rooms for her friends ?" "Never, that I know of, a word.

It isn't the sort of thing she does.

And whom has she, after all," Mrs.Assingham added, "to complain to ?" "Hasn't she always you ?" "Oh, 'me'! Charlotte and I, nowadays--!" She spoke as of a chapter closed.

"Yet see the justice I still do her.