"The worst of it is, I don't think the cab would support two." "Is Wilshaw so badly off ?" "His money is tied up until he is twenty-eight," Sarah explained.

"I think that his father must have known how he was going to turn out.
Jimmy promised that he would never anticipate it, and the dear old thing keeps his word.

We shall be married on his twenty-eighth birthday, all right, unless his mother does the decent thing before." "Has she money ?" Wingate asked.
"Plenty--but she hasn't much confidence in Jimmy.

I think she shows signs of wavering lately, though.

Perhaps his latest idea--he's going into the City to-morrow, you know--may bring her around .-- Mr.Wingate!" "Well ?" "You're rather a dear old thing, you know," she said, "although you're so serious." "And you're quite nice," he admitted, "although you're such an incorrigible little flirt." "How do you know ?" she laughed.