"Will you have some lunch--some wine ?" she asked, a dull, vague wonder rising in her mind that this grim, middle-class man should be of kith and kin with her dead father.
"Thank you; no.

I had an abernethy biscuit at the station." He drew back from, and waved away, the tray of wine which Jason at this moment brought in.

"I never touch wine.

I, and all mine, are total abstainers.
Those who fly to the wine-cup in moments of tribulation and grief rely on a broken reed which shall pierce their hand.

I trust you do not drink, Cousin Ida ?" "No--yes; sometimes; not much," she replied, vaguely, and regarding him with a dull wonder; for she had never seen this kind of man before.
Mr.Wordley poured out a glass of wine, and, in silent indignation, handed it to her; and, unconscious of the heavy scowl with which Mr.
John Heron regarded her, she put her lips to it.
"A glass of wine is not a bad thing at any time," said the old lawyer; "especially when one is weakened and prostrated by trouble.