21/51 "Good news! may I come in ?" "Surely," said Phoebe, still troubled and confused by Reginald's strange agitation. "My husband knew it directly. If ever you are ill, go to him and nobody else--by the refraction, and the angle, and its being three times and a half as heavy as water. It is worth three hundred pounds to buy, and a hundred and fifty pounds to sell." "Oh!" "So don't you go throwing it away, as he did. (In a whisper.) Two teacups? |