"I can't be in two places at once." "Did you stay at home that evening ?" "No,--not all the evening." "What friends are they you go to, when you are out at night, Harriet ?" "Oh, some relations of the Colchester people .-- I suppose you've been spending most of your time in Kennington since Sunday ?" "I haven't left home.

In fact, I've been very busy.

I've just finished some work that has occupied me for nearly a year." After all, he could not refrain from speaking of it, though he had made up his mind not to do so.
"Work?
What work ?" asked Harriet, with the suspicious look which came into her grey eyes whenever she heard something she could not understand.
"Some writing.

I've written a play." "A play?
Will it be acted ?" "Oh no, it isn't meant for acting." "What's the good of it then ?" "It's written in verse.

I shall perhaps try to get it published." "Shall you get money for it ?" "That is scarcely likely.