I should have to come back the same night--I'm so tremendously busy just now--what with the paper and so on." "Yes, but--I quite admit all you say, George--but--" "Here's another idea," he broke out.

"Why don't you ask Mrs.Lessways to go up with you and stay a week or two?
It would be a rare change for her, and company for you." Miss Gailey looked quickly at her old friend.
"Oh! Bless you!" said Mrs.Lessways.

"I've only been to London once, and that was only for two days--before Hilda was born.

I should be no use in London, at my time of life.

I'm one of your home-stayers." Nevertheless it was plain that the notion appealed to her fancy, and that she would enjoy flirting with it.
"Nonsense, Mrs.Lessways!" said George Cannon.