U.Scott had been appointed secretary to that committee.

This, to be sure, afforded but a fleeting moment of halcyon bliss; but a man like Mr.Scott knew how to prolong such a moment to its uttermost stretch.

The committee had ceased to sit, and the fruits of their labour were already apparent in the establishment of a new public office, presided over by Sir Gregory; but still the clever Undy continued to draw his salary.
Undy was one of those men who, though married and the fathers of families, are always seen and known '_en garcon_'.

No one had a larger circle of acquaintance than Undy Scott; no one, apparently, a smaller circle than Mrs.Undy Scott.

So small, indeed, was it, that its _locale_ was utterly unknown in the fashionable world.