But I daresay you'll have forgotten all about her in three months.

And, anyway, I don't suppose she'd look at you if you were the last man in the world.

If you'll walk part of the way home with me I'll regale you with anecdotes of her chilhood which will probably cause you to change your views altogether." In Fullalove Alley Mr.Edward Silk, his forebodings fulfilled, received the news of Amelia Kybird's faithlessness in a spirit of' quiet despair, and turned a deaf ear to the voluble sympathy of his neighbours.

Similar things had happened to young men living there before, but their behaviour had been widely different to Mr.Silk's.

Bob Crump, for instance, had been jilted on the very morning he had arranged for his wedding, but instead of going about in a state of gentle melancholy he went round and fought his beloved's father--merely because it was her father--and wound up an exciting day by selling off his household goods to the highest bidders.