I rather like the notice in the "Pulpit," myself.' 'Like it!' said Lady Carbury, still suffering in every fibre of her self-love from the soreness produced by those Juggernaut's car-wheels.
'Anything is better than indifference, Lady Carbury.

A great many people remember simply that the book has been noticed, but carry away nothing as to the purport of the review.

It's a very good advertisement.' 'But to be told that I have got to learn the A B C of history after working as I have worked!' 'That's a mere form of speech, Lady Carbury.' 'You think the book has done pretty well ?' 'Pretty well;--just about what we hoped, you know.' 'There'll be something coming to me, Mr Leadham ?' Mr Leadham sent for a ledger, and turned over a few pages and ran up a few figures, and then scratched his head.

There would be something, but Lady Carbury was not to imagine that it could be very much.

It did not often happen that a great deal could be made by a first book.
Nevertheless, Lady Carbury, when she left the publisher's shop, did carry a cheque with her.