I hope to see a good deal of you while I'm in Ballymoy, and it will be most inconvenient for me if you won't speak to the Major while I'm staying in his house." "Did you say that you knew Miss King ?" "Not intimately," said Meldon; "at least not very intimately.

I travelled down in the train with her yesterday, and we had a pleasant chat together.

If I wasn't married already--but there's no use talking about that.

And I don't for a moment suppose that the Major will care about having a try.

He's a confirmed old bachelor.