As if then for a better proof of gaiety he presently seized him by the shoulders and, still without speaking, pushed him backward into the chair he himself had just quitted.

Mrs.
Brook's eyes, from the sofa, while this went on, attached themselves to her visitors.

It took Vanderbank, as he moved about and his companions waited, a minute longer to produce what he had in mind.

"What IS splendid, as we call it, is this extraordinary freedom and good humour of our intercourse and the fact that we do care--so independently of our personal interests, with so little selfishness or other vulgarity--to get at the idea of things.

The beautiful specimen Mrs.Brook had just given me of that," he continued to Mitchy, "was what made me break out to you about her when you came in." He spoke to one friend, but he looked at the other.