"I'm afraid I don't understand you." She swept him on again.

"I'll come to you presently and explain.

I MUST get my letter for Petherton; after which I'll give up Mitchy, whom I was going to find, and since I've broken the ice--if it isn't too much to say to such a polar bear!--I'll show you le fond de ma pensee.

Baby darling," she said to her niece, "keep Mr.Longdon.Show him," she benevolently suggested, "what you've been reading." Then again to her fellow guest, as arrested by this very question: "Caro signore, have YOU a possible book ?" Little Aggie had got straight up and was holding out her volume, which Mr.Longdon, all courtesy for her, glanced at.

"Stories from English History.