By the way, before you go we shall have to talk over the question of shutting up the house.

We had too much to think of to go into that before we came away, and I suppose I shall have to run down and arrange it all, if you have quite made up your mind that you don't mean to return for a year or two." "Decidedly our present idea is to have a few weeks at Weymouth, and then when we feel braced up to come back here and look for a house.

Where are you likely to be, Mark ?" Mrs.Cunningham asked.
"I shall consult with Dick Chetwynd; he knows the town thoroughly, and is more up here than he is down in the country; he will recommend me to some lodging in a street that, without being the height of fashion, is at least passable.

I have not the least wish to become a regular man about town, but I should like to go into good society.

One cannot be at work incessantly." The next morning the chief of the detective department told Mark that he had decided to accept his offer.
"As you will receive no pay," he said, "I shall regard you as a sort of volunteer.