167/263 Murder will out." "Murder will--but this isn't murder. Quite the contrary perhaps! I verily believe," she had her moments of adding, "that, for the amusement of the row, you would prefer an explosion." This, however, was a remark he seldom noticed; he wound up, for the most part, after a long, contemplative smoke, with a transition from which no exposed futility in it had succeeded in weaning him. "What I can't for my life make out is your idea of the old boy." "Charlotte's too inconceivably funny husband? You never speak of him but as too inconceivably funny." "Well, he is," she always confessed. "That is he may be, for all I know, too inconceivably great. |