I don't know why I stayed the last week.

I did say to Lady Midlothian that I thought I should go on the 20th; and, though I know that she knew that I really didn't go, she has not once sent to me since.

To be sure they've been out every night; but I thought she might have asked me to come and lunch.

It's so very lonely dining by myself in lodgings in London." "And yet you never will come and dine with me." "No, my dear; no.

But we won't talk about that.