"Don't say such things! A poor clerk is suggestive--it's possible to see him in a romantic light--but a shopman! If you knew him,' you would laugh at the idea.

Mystery suits him very well indeed; to tell the truth, he's much more interesting now than when one knew him as a partner in a manufactory of some kind.

You see he's unhappy--there are lines in his face--" "Perhaps," suggested Bertha, "he has married a rich widow and daren't confess it.".