But let it be for when I'm old and horrible; not an hour before.

I do want to live a little even yet.

So you ought to let me off easily--even as I let you." "Oh I know," said Vanderbank handsomely, "that there are things you don't put to me! You show a tact!" "There it is.

And I like much better," Mrs.Brook went on, "our speaking of it as delicacy than as duplicity.

If you understand, it's so much saved." "What I always understand more than anything else," he returned, "is the general truth that you're prodigious." It was perhaps a little as relapse from tension that she had nothing against that.