"We tried cream-ice, and then we tried water-ice.

The children, Miss Minerva, preferred the cream-ice.

And, do you know, I'm of their opinion.

There's something in a cream-ice--what do you think yourself of cream-ices, Mr.Le Frank ?" It was one among the many weaknesses of Mr.Gallilee's character to be incapable of opening his lips without, sooner or later, taking somebody into his confidence.

In the merest trifles, he instinctively invited sympathy and agreement from any person within his reach--from a total stranger quite as readily as from an intimate friend.