If you decline to believe me, I shall be only too much justified by your experience hereafter." "What would you have me do ?" "What must very soon occur to your own excellent wits, Cecily--for I won't give up all my pride in you.

Mr.Elgar should, of course, go back to England, and do something that becomes him; he must decide what.

Let him have a few days with us in Capri; then go, and so far recommend himself in our eyes.

No one can make him see that this is what his dignity--if nothing else--demands, except yourself.

Think of it, dear." Cecily did think of it, long and anxiously.