Britt looked quickly at Miss Pelham and Mr.Bowles.The former took down the statement in shorthand and Bowles was afterward required to sign "his deposition." Such a statement as that, coming from the source it did, would be of inestimable value in Court.
"If they could only be married in some way," was Britt's private lament to Saunders, from time to time, when despair overcame confidence.
"I've got a ripping idea," Saunders said one day.
"Let's have it.

You've always got 'em.

Why not divide with me ?" "Can't do it just yet.

I've been looking up a little matter.

I'll spring it soon." "How long have you been working on the idea ?" "Nearly four months," said Saunders, yawning.
"'Gad, this climate _is_ enervating," was Britt's caustic comment.
Saunders was heels over head in love with Miss Pelham at this time, so it is not surprising that he had some sort of an idea about marriage, no matter whom it concerned.
Night after night, the Deppinghams and Brownes gave dinners, balls, musicales, "Bridges," masques and theatre suppers at the chateau.