Doctor Staines begged leave to distinguish; he had not said he would set up a carriage at the first one hundred guinea fee, but only that he would not set up one before.

There are misguided people who would call this logic: but Rosa said it was equivocating, and urged him so warmly that at last he burst out, "Who can go on forever saying 'No,' to the only creature he loves ?"--and caved.

In forty-eight hours more a brougham waited at Mrs.Staines's door.

The servant engaged to drive it was Andrew Pearman, a bachelor, and, hitherto, an under-groom.

He readily consented to be coachman, and to do certain domestic work as well.