I came to speak to you here because it is cooler, and I wished to see that you were--comfortable; that is the English word, is it not ?" "Yes," rejoined Derrick, with a laugh.

"And it's the most important one in the language nowadays.

Comfort is the one thing everybody goes for; we've made it our tin god, and we worship it all the time; it's because money means comfort that we're all out for it." "And yet you are poor," said her Excellency, musingly.

"And you are happy ?" There was a note of interrogation in her voice, and Derrick checked a sigh as he shrugged his shoulders, a trick which everybody about the place possessed, and he was acquiring unconsciously; he was dreading that, in time, he should come to spread out his hands and gesticulate like the rest of them.
"Count no man happy till he's dead," he said, a trifle wistfully; and, at that moment, the scene before him, fair as it was, assumed a dreary aspect, and he longed for the grimy London streets, the hustle of the crowd, the smell of the asphalt; and, above all, the stone staircase and the gaol-like corridors of Brown's Buildings.

"At any rate, if I'm not happy, it is not your fault, Donna Elvira.