We are in real difficulty about our dear friend Mr.Kenyon, the impulse being, of course, that Robert should go at once, and then the fear coming that it might be an annoyance, an intrusion, something the farthest from what it should be at all.

If you had been more explicit--_you_--and we could know what was in your mind when you 'ask' Robert to come, my dear friend, then it would be all easier.

If we could but know whether anything passed between you and Miss Bayley on this subject, or whether it is entirely out of your own head that you wish Robert to come.

I thought about it yesterday, till I went to bed at eight o'clock with headache.

Shall I tell you something in your ear?
It is easier for a rich man to enter, after all, into the kingdom of heaven than into the full advantages of real human tenderness.