"It's too delightful of you to be so nice to him, and put up with all his tiresome stories.

I know what they are, because I had to listen to them when we were engaged--I'm sure he is telling the same ones still.

And now I shan't always have to be asking Carry Fisher here to keep him in a good-humour.

She's a perfect vulture, you know; and she hasn't the least moral sense.

She is always getting Gus to speculate for her, and I'm sure she never pays when she loses." Miss Bart could shudder at this state of things without the embarrassment of a personal application.