I will tell you all about that some day.

No; we will not go to the villa.

Write and give Mrs.Branston my best thanks for the generous offer, and invent some excuse for declining it; that's a good fellow." By-and-by, when the letter was written, John Saltram said,--"I do not want to go out of town at all, Gilbert.

It's no use for the doctor to talk; I can't leave London till we have news of Marian." Gilbert had been prepared for this, and set himself to argue the point with admirable patience.

Mr.Proul's work would go on just as well, he urged, whether they were in London or at Hampton.