"I want to speak to you before you go to-night." Then she passed on.
"What's that Hermione was saying ?" asked Sir Hugh, when he had shut the door.
"She only told me that she wanted to speak to me." "She has always got some cursed secret," said Sir Hugh.

"If there, is anything I hate, it's a secret." Now this was hardly fair, for Sir Hugh was a man very secret in his own affairs, never telling his wife anything about them.

He kept two banker's accounts, so that no banker's clerk might know how he stood as regarded ready money, and hardly treated even his lawyer with confidence.
He did not move from his own chair, so that, after dinner, his uncle was not next to him.

The places left by the ladies were not closed up, and the table was very uncomfortable.
"I see they're going to have another week after this with the Pytchley," said Sir Hugh to his brother.
"I suppose they will--or ten days.

Things ain't very early this year." "I think I shall go down.