It certainly had not come to his own importunity.

"Don't say that, Johnny; pray don't." "But I do say it." "When I told Amelia yesterday evening that I didn't like to go to you again, because of course a man has feelings, she told me to mention her name.

'I'm sure he'd do it for my sake,' she said." "I don't believe she said anything of the kind." "Upon my word she did.

You ask her." "And if she did, she oughtn't to have said it." "Oh, Johnny, don't speak in that way of her.

She's my wife, and you know what your own feelings were once.