"So," he persuaded them, "if you would be satisfied with it for half a day, I would be very much obliged to you if you would take it ...

share and share alike." There was as much hesitation in Peter's speech as if it had really been the favour he seemed to make it, though in fact it grew out of his attempt to fashion his offer by what he saw in the dusk of Miss Dassonville's face.

"In the evenings," he finished, "we could take it turn about.

There are a great many evenings when I don't go out at all." "Me, too," consented Mrs.Merrithew cheerfully.

"I get tired easy, but you and Savilla could go." The proposal appealed to her as neighbourly, and it was quite in keeping with the character of a successful business man, as he was projected on the understanding of Bloombury, to wish not to keep paying for a thing of which he had no use.