There could be no other remedy for this evil.
Lopez, though he talked throughout the whole of dinner,--turning sometimes indeed to Mrs.Leslie who sat at his left hand,--said very little that all the world might not have heard.

But he did say one such word.

"It has been so dreary to me, the last month!" Emily of course had no answer to make to this.

She could not tell him that her desolation had been infinitely worse than his, and that she had sometimes felt as though her very heart would break.

"I wonder whether it must always be like this with me," he said,--and then he went back to the theatres, and other ordinary conversation.
"I suppose you've got to the bottom of that champagne you used to have," said Lord Mongrober, roaring across the table to his host, holding his glass in his hand, and with strong marks of disapprobation on his face.
"The very same wine as we were drinking when your lordship last did me the honour of dining here," said Dick.