If we make the discovery that we all hope for, we have your wife to thank for it." He paused, and looked at his watch.

"I've got an appointment at the club.
The committee will blackball the best fellow that ever lived if I don't go and stop them.

Good-by." The last day of Mrs.Evelin's sojourn in England was memorable in more ways than one.
On the first occasion in Beaucourt's experience of his married life, his wife wrote to him instead of speaking to him, although they were both in the house at the time.

It was a little note only containing these words: "I thought you would like to say good-by to Mrs.Evelin.I have told her to expect you in the library, and I will take care that you are not disturbed." Waiting at the window of her sitting-room, on the upper floor, Lady Howel perceived that the delicate generosity of her conduct had been gratefully felt.

The interview in the library barely lasted for five minutes.