He then unfolded the local newspaper and proceeded to make an excellent breakfast.

When he had quite finished, he lit a cigarette and rose a little abruptly to his feet as a car glided out of the stable yard and slowly approached the front door.
"I shall now," he said, "leave you to talk over and discuss this matter for the rest of the day.

I believe you said, dear," he added, turning to his wife, "that we were dining alone to-night ?" "Quite alone, George," Lady Ashleigh admitted.

"We were to have gone to Annerley Castle, but the Duke is laid up somewhere in Scotland." "I remember," her husband assented.

"Very well, then, at dinner-time to-night you can tell me your decision, or rather we will discuss it together.