Mrs.Wimbush delights in her wit and says there's nothing so charming as to hear Mr.Paraday draw it out.

He's perpetually detailed for this job, and he tells me it has a peculiarly exhausting effect.

Every one's beginning--at the end of two days--to sidle obsequiously away from her, and Mrs.Wimbush pushes him again and again into the breach.

None of the uses I have yet seen him put to infuriate me quite so much.

He looks very fagged and has at last confessed to me that his condition makes him uneasy--has even promised me he'll go straight home instead of returning to his final engagements in town.