'Now, dear love, you see Colney's meaning, when he says, there are people who have no intimacy in them.

Here's a man who visits me regularly once a week or more, has been familiar for years--four, at least; and he wants to speak to me, and must obtain the "privilege" by special appointment! What can be the meaning of it ?' 'You will hear to-morrow afternoon,' Nataly said, seeing one paved way to the meaning--a too likely meaning...

'He hasn't been...

nothing about Fredi, surely!' 'I have had no information.' 'Impossible! Barmby has good sense; Bottesini can't intend to come scraping on that string.

But we won't lose him; he's one of us.