But Dolly, who is very kind-hearted, assured him that she had heard you say at least a dozen times: 'Be sure that I call upon Mr.Carne to-day.

What will he think of my neglect?
But I hope that he will set it down to the right cause--the perpetual demands upon my time.' And when she told him that, he said that he would call the next day, and so he did." "Ah!" cried the old man, not well pleased; "it was Dolly who took that little business off my shoulders! She might have been content with her elder sister's judgment, in a family question of that sort.

But I dare say she thought it right to make my excuses.

Very well, I'll do that for myself.

To-morrow I shall call upon that young man, unless I get another despatch to-night.