3/23 Dahlia, will you do me the favour to speak two or three words with me before I go? Of what mortal service is it shamming the insensible? Absolutely! "Well," seeing that words were of no avail, he summed up expostulation and reproach in this sigh of resigned philosophy: "I am going. Let me see--I have my Temple keys ?--yes! I am afraid that even when you are inclined to be gracious and look at me, I shall not, be visible to you for some days. I start for Lord Elling's to-morrow morning at five. |