"Write," he concluded, "as soon as you have leisure.

I shall be here, I think, for another week or so.

By the bye, I have taken to cycling, and I fancy it will be physically good for me." To this communication, Mrs.Woolstan replied She began with a few formal commendations of his speech.

"You are so kind as to ask if I can suggest any way in which it could have been improved, but of course I know that that is only a polite phrase.

I should not venture to criticise anything of yours _now_, even if I had the presumption to think that I was capable of saying anything worth your attention.