"I shall be divorced from him to-morrow.

Be careful! You nearly broke that plate." David stared at her, open-mouthed.
"Going to be divorced from him to-morrow ?" "Yes, is there anything odd about it ?" "Oh," he said, after staring at her impassive face for a full minute.
"Now I'm sure you've been making fun of me all along." "My dear Mr.Brandon, why will you persist in making me out a liar ?" He was forced to apologize again and became such a model of perplexity and embarrassment that Hannah's gravity broke down at last and her merry peal of laughter mingled with the clatter of plates and the hubbub of voices.
"I must take pity on you and enlighten you," she said, "but promise me it shall go no further.

It's only our own little circle that knows about it and I don't want to be the laughing-stock of the Lane." "Of course I will promise," he said eagerly.
She kept his curiosity on the _qui vive_ to amuse herself a little longer, but ended by telling him all, amid frequent exclamations of surprise.
"Well, I never!" he said when it was over.

"Fancy a religion in which only two per cent.

of the people who profess it have ever heard of its laws.