19/27 What is the use? If you will only agree to banish the subject altogether, we shall be so comfortable." "How is it to be banished ?" "At any rate we need not speak of it. Why should we talk on a subject which is simply uncomfortable, and which we cannot mend ?" "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!" And now he swayed himself backwards and forwards in his chair, bewailing his own condition and hers, and his past imprudence, while the tears ran down his cheeks. She still knelt there at his feet, looking up into his face with loving, beseeching eyes, praying him to be comforted, and declaring that all would still be well if he would only forget the subject, or, at any rate, cease to speak of it. |