Can I do anything for you in town ?" Marian hesitated painfully.
"Do not mind giving me plenty of bother," he said.

"I am so accustomed to superintend the transit of machines as cumbersome as trunks and as fragile as bonnet boxes, that the care of a houseful of ordinary luggage would be a mere amusement for me." "Thank you; but it is not that.

I was only thinking--Are you likely to see my cousin, Mr.Marmaduke Lind, whilst you are in London ?" "N--no.

Unless I call upon him, which I have no excuse for doing." "Oh! I thought you knew him." "I met him at that concert." "But I thought you were in the habit of going about with him.

At least, I understood him one day to say that you had been to the theatre together." "So we were; but only once.