That's an understood thing; no mention, no allusion, ever between us.

And the truth is that my position is just a little like yours: on the whole, I'm rather glad.
Hugh wants desperately to get to the other end of the world, and I dare say it's the best thing I could do to go with him.

No roughing it, of course; that isn't in my way.' 'I should think not, indeed!' 'Oh, I may rise to those heights, who knows! If the new sensation ever seemed worth the trouble .-- In a year or two, we shall meet and compare notes.

Don't expect long descriptive letters; I don't care to do indifferently what other people have done well and put into print--it's a waste of energy.

But you are sure to have far more interesting and original things to tell about; it will read so piquantly, I'm sure, at Honolulu.' They drank tea together, and talked, in all, for a couple of hours.
When she rose to leave, Alma, but for her sombre drapings, was totally changed from the limp, woebegone, shrinking girl who had at first presented herself.
'There's no one else,' she said, 'who would have behaved to me so kindly and so nobly.' 'Nonsense! But _that's_ nonsense, too.