Not unless you call me 'Dick.'" "Then say it for me--Dick." "No, not yet, on reflection.

Dick is too short, say 'Dear Dick.'" "Dear Dick--there!" "Thank you, my lady.

Now we had better remember that your husband is present." He turned to Beaucourt.

"Lady Howel had the idea," he proceeded, "which ought to have presented itself to you and to me.

It was a serious misfortune (as she thought) that Mr.Evelin's sufferings in his last illness, and his wife's anxiety while she was nursing him, had left them unfit to act in their own defense.