However, I haven't come up to declare my passion--I've come to bring him news that will interest him much more.

Above all I've come to urge upon him to be careful." "About Flora Saunt ?" "About what he says and does: he must be as still as a mouse! She's at last really engaged." "But it's a tremendous secret ?" I was moved to mirth.
"Precisely: she wired me this noon, and spent another shilling to tell me that not a creature in the world is yet to know it." "She had better have spent it to tell you that she had just passed an hour with the creature you see before you." "She has just passed an hour with every one in the place!" Mrs.Meldrum cried.

"They've vital reasons, she says, for it's not coming out for a month.

Then it will be formally announced, but meanwhile her rejoicing is wild.

I daresay Mr.Dawling already knows and, as it's nearly seven o'clock, may have jumped off London Bridge.