"He and Captain Warren are friendly, and father used to know and like him, as I have told you.

The novel is great fun, though! The people in it are coming to seem almost real to me." "I daresay! I was a great reader myself once, before my health--my heart, you know--began to trouble me.

The doctors now forbid my reading anything the least bit exciting.

Has this--er--Mr.Pearson means ?" "I know very little of him, personally, but I think not.

He used to be connected with the _Planet_, and wrote things about Wall Street.