She said you were such a good son.

Even when you were a young man on a salary your mother had a best black silk and a second best." "Women are the queerest!" Peter commented at large.

"It was always such a comfort to Ellen that mother had a good silk to be buried in.

Now what is there talismanic about silk ?" "It's evidence," she smiled, "and that's what women require most." "Well, I hope Mrs.Merrithew will accept it as evidence that I am a suitable person to take you out in a gondola this evening.

You haven't seen Venice by night ?" "Only as we came from the station.