"Did you see him this morning ?" "No, my dear.

I came downstairs only a minute or two before you did, and then found that he was gone." "Have you thought over what you are going to do, dad, for him ?" "Wilson and I have talked it over, Frances, but at present we don't see our way.

It is too serious a matter to make up our minds in a hurry.

Your mother is in favour of giving him a handsome present; but I don't think, myself, that that would do.

Men who will do such deeds as that are not the sort of men to be paid by money." "Oh no, dad! Surely not that.