He hasn't settled down to like his tea and toast when he is tired of his work, as a married man should do.

Do you know that I am not sure that a little flirtation would not be very good for him ?" "Oh, my dear!" "It should be very moderate, you know." "But then, suppose it wasn't moderate.

I don't like to see engaged young men going on in that way.

I suppose I'm very old fashioned; but I think when a young man is engaged, he ought to remember it and to show it.

It ought to make him a little serious, and he shouldn't be going about like a butterfly, that may do just as it pleases in the sunshine." During the three months which Harry remained in town before the Easter holidays he wrote more than once to Florence, pressing her to name an early day for their marriage.