10/26 "How do you do, Captain Aylmer ?" she said, as he was about to take his seat. The pleasure is of course the greater." "Nor I of seeing you. Mrs.Winterfield has not mentioned to me that you were coming to Perivale." "I didn't know it myself till the day before yesterday. I'm going to give an account of my stewardship to the good-natured Perivalians who send me to Parliament. I'm to dine with the mayor to-morrow, and as some big-wig has come in his way who is going to dine with him also, the thing has been got up in a hurry. |