The conversation was about acids and explosives, or the planets or bishops, or else on the never, never-ending subject of elevating the workingman and building schools for his children.

Basil, of course, enjoyed it.

He thought he was giving me a magnificent object lesson.

He was never done praising the ladies Mary Elinor and Adelaide Stanhope.

I'm sure I wish he had married one or all of them--and I told him so." "You could not be so cruel, Dora." "I managed it with the greatest ease imaginable.