My attorneys assure me there can be no question as to that with such irrefutable proofs in my possession, but some unlooked-for complications have arisen, and we have had to prepare ourselves to meet them.

But I did not call to burden you with my perplexities, Miss Carleton.
Tell me of yourself.

I trust you have been well since I last saw you." "Yes, I am usually well," said Miss Carleton, who thought she detected on the part of her visitor an avoidance of any details concerning himself; "but I have been rather bored of late." Then, in answer to his look of inquiry, she continued, "Of course, on account of Hugh Mainwaring's death, we have been living very quietly since our return, but, notwithstanding that fact, society has been paying due homage to the prospective increase of fortune and added social position of the Mainwarings.

I am not particularly fond of society in the ordinary sense of the word, you know, and I have found it exceedingly tiresome." "From reports, I should judge 'society' to be very fond of yourself," he remarked, with a smile.
"After its own fashion," she replied, smiling in return; "but it becomes very monotonous.

It is the same old round, you know, only that just now it bows a little lower than formerly, while it mingles condolences and congratulations in the most absurd manner.