I sometimes think that I shall never leave English shores again." "And you are not married ?" ventured the lady, with a tremor of hesitation in her voice.

She had rushed on her destruction unawares.
"No--no," replied the man who had once wanted to marry her.

"And at this moment I'm very glad I'm not." "Oh, are you?
Why ?" exclaimed the foolish woman.

"Don't you believe in marriage ?" "In the abstract--oh, yes," said Mr Ogilvie, with meaning.

"But my chance of married happiness escaped me years ago." Aunt Charlotte blushed hotly.