It would be splendid!-- Oh, what do you think of that shameful affair in Hamilton Terrace?
Mrs Carnaby takes it like an angel.

They're going to give up housekeeping.
Very sensible, I say.

Everybody will do it before long.

Why should we be plagued with private houses ?' 'There are difficulties----' 'Of course there are, and men seem to enjoy pointing them out.

They think it a crime if women hate the bother and misery of housekeeping.' 'I am not so conservative.' He tried to meet her eyes, which were gleaming fixedly upon him; but his look fell, and turned as quickly from the wonderful white shoulders, the throbbing throat, the neck that showed its colour against swan's-down.