I can just see that it isn't everything to all the world.

Do what I say, and not what I do.' Maisie was careful not to reopen debatable matters, and they returned to London joyously.

The terminus stopped Dick in the midst of an eloquent harangue on the beauties of exercise.

He would buy Maisie a horse,--such a horse as never yet bowed head to bit,--would stable it, with a companion, some twenty miles from London, and Maisie, solely for her health's sake should ride with him twice or thrice a week.
'That's absurd,' said she.

'It wouldn't be proper.' 'Now, who in all London to-night would have sufficient interest or audacity to call us two to account for anything we chose to do ?' Maisie looked at the lamps, the fog, and the hideous turmoil.