"The man's well enough in some ways.

Dear knows there would be a pair of them--one's as much of a muddler as the other! And anybody can see with half an eye that Advena likes him.

It hasn't turned out as I expected, that's a fact, John, and I'm just very much annoyed." "I'm not best pleased about it myself," said John Murchison, expressing, as usual, a very small proportion of the regret that he felt, "but I suppose they know their own business." Thus, in their different ways, did these elder ones also acknowledge their helplessness before the advancing event.

They could talk of it in private and express their dissatisfaction with it, and that was all they could do.

It would not be a matter much further turned over between them at best.