"I haven't seen him for some time, and so we haven't discussed you.

But from what I know of him I should say that your work, as you call it, will shock him frightfully.

You can't altogether blame him.

He's a bachelor, and has very strict ideas about a wife's duty to her husband." Miss King was moved by a desire to startle Meldon.

She was really engaged on quite an innocent novel, but she chose to pretend that she was going on in her old way.
"What will he say," she said, "when he finds out that I'm going on with my work under his very eyes, so to speak, in Ballymoy ?" Meldon sat up suddenly.
"You don't mean that?
Surely you can't intend--" "Now you're shocked," said Miss King, "and you said you wouldn't be." "I am a little.