They hope to have the session over by that time, and therefore the committee is to be put off till next session.

They mean to have Lord Bowles home from Canada, and they think that Bowles would like to be here in the winter.

Sir Marmaduke will be summoned for February next, and will of course stretch his stay over the hot months.
All this will, on the whole, be for the best.

Lady Rowley could hardly have packed up her things and come away at a day's notice, whatever your father might have done.

I'll call to-morrow at luncheon time.
Yours always, F.O.
There was nothing objectionable in this letter,--excepting always the "Dear Emily,"-- nothing which it was not imperative on Colonel Osborne to communicate to the person to whom it was addressed.