Not so much even as the death of someone I knew to cheer me.
There would have been variety at least in that.

By the way, though, I did see a familiar name among the personals,--just a notice that the Rev.
Denham Halloway had accepted a call to some church or other in some place or other.

He was quite a friend of yours, wasn't he, that summer before we were married, when we were all in that odious little Joppa together?
How bored I was there!" "Denham Halloway," repeated Gerald, musingly.

"Denham Halloway.

Why, I don't believe I have thought of him since.