"I am a married man, sir," he replied gravely.
"Very well; that's experience--of one kind.

When a man's out of temper, and a woman wants something of him, do you know how cleverly she can take advantage of her privileges to aggravate him, till there's nothing he won't do to get her to leave him in peace?
That's how I came to tell Mrs.Gallilee, what she told you." He waited a little, and comforted himself with his pipe.
"Mind this," he resumed, "I don't profess to feel any interest in the girl; and I never cared two straws about her parents.

At the same time, if you can turn to good account what I am going to say next--do it, and welcome.

This scandal began in the bragging of a fellow-student of mine at Rome.

He was angry with me, and angry with another man, for laughing at him when he declared himself to be Mrs.Robert Graywell's lover: and he laid us a wager that we should see the woman alone in his room, that night.