Just by a chance that I'm here.

How vexed I should have been if I'd heard of you coming whilst I was away! _Isn't_ it annoying for people to call whilst one's away?
I mean, of course, people one really wants to see.' 'Certainly, things don't often happen so well.

I'm in town on very doleful business, and have come to see if you can help me.' 'Help you?
How?
I do hope I can.' 'Have you still your spare room ?' 'Oh, yes.' 'Then I may perhaps ask you to let me have it in a few days.

I must tell you how it is.

A poor girl, in whom I have a great interest, has fallen ill in very dreary lodgings.