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which the tones of love were decidedly inconvenienced by a considerable emphasis, his thoughts meanwhile running as follows: 'I, the man she loves best in the world, as she says, am to understand that my poor half-holiday is to be lost, because she wants to wear on Sunday a dress there is not the slightest necessity for wearing, simply, in fact, to appear more striking than usual in the eyes of Yalbury young men; and I not there, either.'

'Then there are three dresses good enough for my eyes, but neither is good enough for the youth of Yalbury,' he said.

'No, not that exactly, Dick. Still, you see, I do want—to look pretty to them—there, that's honest. But I sha'n't be much longer.'

'How much?'

'A quarter of an hour.'

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