I did not even leave my office, I was so anxious to finish what was necessary and to find myself here." Mrs.Benedek played with the cards a moment and then rose to her feet with a little grimace.
"Well, I suppose I shall have to give in," she sighed.

"I am taking it for granted, you see, that you are expecting me to dine with you." "My dear lady," Selingman declared emphatically, "if you were to break through our time-honoured custom and deny me the joy of your company on my first evening in London, I think that I should send another to look after my business in this country, and retire myself to the seclusion of my little country home near Potsdam.

The inducements of managing one's own affairs in this country, Mr.Norgate," he added, "are, as you may imagine, manifold and magnetic." "We will not grudge them to you so long as you don't come too often," Norgate remarked, as he bade them good night.

"The man who monopolised Mrs.Benedek would soon make himself unpopular here.".