You know----" "John, I cannot stay with you this morning.

There will be a committee of the ladies of the Home Mission here at eleven o'clock.

I have some preparations for them to make and if I get put out of my way in the meantime I shall be unable to meet them." "Is not our mutual happiness of more importance than this meeting ?" "Of course it is.

But you know, John, many things in life compel us continually to put very inferior subjects before either our personal or our mutual happiness.

A conversation such as you wish cannot be hurried.