However, silence is even more embarrassing than conversation, so at length I begin:-- _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"It is a lovely day." _True Love_.--"Yes, but the drought is getting rather oppressive, don't you think ?" _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"The crops certainly need rain, and the feed is becoming scarce." _True Love_.--"Are you a farmer's wife ?" _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"Oh no! that is a promotion to look forward to; I am now only a Goose Girl." _True Love_.--"Indeed! If I wished to be severe I might remark: that I am sure you have found at last your true vocation!" _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"It was certainly through no desire to please _you_ that I chose it." _True Love_.--"I am quite sure of that! Are you staying in this part ?" _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"Oh no! I live many miles distant, over an extremely rough road.

And you ?" _True Love_.--"I am still at the Hydropathic; or at least my luggage is there." _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"It must be very pleasant to attract you so long." _True Love_.--"Not so pleasant as it was." _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"No?
A new proprietor, I suppose." _True Love_.--"No; same proprietor; but the house is empty." _Bailiff's Daughter_ (yawning purposely).--"That is strange; the hotels are usually so full at this season.

Why did so many leave ?" _True Love_.--"As a matter of fact, only one left.

'Full' and 'empty' are purely relative terms.

I call a hotel full when it has you in it, empty when it hasn't." _Bailiff's Daughter_ (dying to laugh, but concealing her feelings).--"I trust my bulk does not make the same impression on the general public! Well, I won't detain you longer; good afternoon; I must go home to my evening work." _True Love_.--"I will accompany you." _Bailiff's Daughter_.--"If you are a gentleman you will remain where you are." _True Love_.--"In the road?
Perhaps; but if I am a man I shall follow you; they always do, I notice.