I wish I'd lived in Rome when they had those banquets you read of in Gibbon." "Did he write a book on cookery ?" asked Lady Garvington very naturally.
"No.

He turned out a lot of dull stuff about wars and migrations of tribes: you are silly, Jane." "What's that about migration of tribes ?" asked Mrs.Belgrove, who was in a good humor, as she had won largely at bridge.

"You don't mean those dear gypsies at Abbot's Wood do you, Lord Garvington?
I met one of them the other day--quite a girl and very pretty in a dark way.

She told my fortune, and said that I would come in for a lot of money.

I'm sure I hope so," sighed Mrs.Belgrove.