"What an odd thing!" she remarked.

"Why, I should have thought that to-day you would have been amiability itself.

I read at breakfast-time that you had accomplished something more than ordinarily wonderful in the City and had made--I forget how many hundreds of thousands of pounds.

When I showed the sketch of your house to my chief, and told him that you were going to let me interview you to-day, I really thought that he would have raised my salary at once." "It's more luck than anything," he said.

"I've stood next door to ruin twice.