Moreover," he laughed, "it seems to me that, so far as that goes, I do live in hansoms.

But you must awfully want your tea," he quickly added; "so let me give you a good stiff cup." He busied himself with this care, and she sat down, on his pushing up a low seat, where she had been standing; so that, while she talked, he could bring her what she further desired.

He moved to and fro before her, he helped himself; and her visit, as the moments passed, had more and more the effect of a signal communication that she had come, all responsibly and deliberately, as on the clear show of the clock-face of their situation, to make.

The whole demonstration, none the less, presented itself as taking place at a very high level of debate--in the cool upper air of the finer discrimination, the deeper sincerity, the larger philosophy.

No matter what were the facts invoked and arrayed, it was only a question, as yet, of their seeing their way together: to which indeed, exactly, the present occasion appeared to have so much to contribute.