We must have a party, Mr.S.Why don't you speak, John?
Shall I say Tuesday fortnight?
Why don't you answer?
Good God, John, what has happened ?" John Sedley sprang up out of his chair to meet his wife, who ran to him.

He seized her in his arms, and said with a hasty voice, "We're ruined, Mary.

We've got the world to begin over again, dear.

It's best that you should know all, and at once." As he spoke, he trembled in every limb, and almost fell.

He thought the news would have overpowered his wife--his wife, to whom he had never said a hard word.
But it was he that was the most moved, sudden as the shock was to her.
When he sank back into his seat, it was the wife that took the office of consoler.