Yet when I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew.

Some of the general public were present, then ?" "Oh, yes.

It is impossible to exclude them when the church is open." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends ?" "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a common-looking person.

I hardly noticed his appearance.

But really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Lady St.Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it.