A sitting-room is at your disposal--begging to be occupied since my boy Charlie went away.

My husband is over head and ears in electioneering business, foolish man, and I can't tell you how I feel the need of someone to talk to on other subjects than the manufacture of votes.

Where is your luggage ?' Wilfrid named the hotel.
'It shall be fetched.

And now I'll ask my niece to come and pour out tea for us.' With the entrance of Beatrice the conversation naturally took a different turn.

She heard with becoming interest of Wilfrid's establishment as a guest, and, after a little talk of Mrs.Rossall and the twins, led to the subject of certain 'revivalist' meetings then being held in Dunfield, an occasion of welcome excitement to such of the inhabitants as could not absorb themselves in politics.