I am a bit useful to you now and then, aren't I ?" "Without you, my dear Dick," she murmured, "I should never be able to manage those awful trustees.

You are invaluable, a perfect jewel of a brother." "Well, I'll give you that little electric coupe you were so keen on last time we were in London, if you'll get me an introduction to that girl within twenty-four hours." Lady Weybourne gasped.
"What a whirlwind!" she exclaimed.

"Dicky, are you, by any chance, in earnest ?" "In earnest for the first time in my life," he assured her.

"Something has got hold of me which I'm not going to part with." She considered him reflectively.

He was twenty-seven years of age, and notwithstanding the boundless opportunities of his youth and great wealth he had so far shown an almost singular indifference to the whole of the opposite sex, from the fascinating chorus girls of London and New York to the no less enterprising young women of his own order.