I do hope you haven't been making pastry or lemonade?
As if the inevitable risks of life were not enough." It was, of course, utterly unsuspected by the elder members of the household that Christopher had "formed a connexion," in so innocent a sense, with a young woman who sold programmes and took tips at the theatre.

That connexion had come about in the simplest way.

One Sunday evening, a year ago, Christopher was returning from Clapham Common on the top of a crowded tram, and next to him sat a girl with a fresh colour, whom he eyed with respectfully furtive admiration.

This young person had paid her fare, but carelessly dropped the ticket, and it chanced that an inspector who came on board at a certain point raised the question whether she had really paid.

The conductor weakly expressed a doubt, suggesting that this passenger had ascended with two or three other people since his last collection of fares.