I am witness to that.

But I have something more for your ears.

This afternoon, as I rode past, I saw an old-fashioned English coach, with a liveried driver and footman, turn into the gate.

From this two ladies alighted and went into the house; when the coach was driven to the stables.

Now, what do you think of that ?" "We are to have a romance enacted in our very midst, it would seem," replied my wife, in her unimpassioned way.