"I made it right with the servants; so don't be apprehensive." "I have not seen you for nearly a week.

It doesn't seem--friendly." "Politics and science are stern masters," he answered gaily.
"They leave little time for your mistress," she rejoined meaningly.
"Who is my mistress ?" "Well, I am not greatly your wife," she replied.

"I have the dregs of your life.

I help you--I am allowed to help you--so little, to share so little in the things that matter to you." "Now, that's imagination and misunderstanding," he rejoined.

"It has helped immensely your being such a figure in society, and entertaining so much, and being so popular, at any rate until very lately." "I do not misunderstand," she answered gravely.