And to-night the great god Kelly has veiled his face from me, and I'm on my knees at his altar sacrificing every shred of sweet temper to propitiate him.

Now, mighty and sulky oracle! _what_ has happened to displease you ?" He said: "If there seems to be any constraint--if anything has altered our pleasant intimacy, I don't know what it is any more than you do, Valerie." "Then there _is_ something!" "I have not said so." "Well, then, I say so," she said, impatiently.

"And I say, also, that whatever threatens our excellent understanding ought to be hunted out and destroyed.

Shall we do it together, Louis ?" He said nothing.
"Come to the fire and talk it over like two sensible people.

Will you?
And please pull that sofa around to the blaze for me.