My wife's friends are always mine .-- If you will excuse me, I will go and change my clothes now.

I have been inveigled into the last word of our present-day frivolities--a theatrical supper party." He turned away, with an enigmatic smile at his wife and a ceremonious bow to Wingate, and closed the door behind him carefully.

They heard his retreating footsteps on the stairs; then Wingate resumed his seat by Josephine's side.
"Do you mind ?" he asked.
"Not a scrap," she replied.

"Besides, it has given Henry such immense pleasure.

I am quite sure that he never believed it possible that I should be found holding another man's hand.