The others are all intimate with each other, and it was as well to post you as to their various relationships." "One thing, Mallett.

I hope Lady Greendale is not in any way a marrying woman.

I am not like Mr.Pickwick, afraid of widows, and have perfect confidence in my power to resist temptation; but at the same time it makes all the difference in the world to one's comfort.

I am not ass enough to suppose that Lady Greendale would even dream for a moment of setting her cap at a Colonel on half pay, but if a woman is in the marrying line she always expects a certain amount of what you may call delicate attention.

It is her daily bread, for she considers that unless every man she comes across evinces a certain amount of admiration, it is a sign that her charms are on the wane, and her chances growing more and more remote." Mallett laughed.