And then he stopped short, both in his speech and walk.
"Yes," said the lady, stopping also, and turning to face him, "you did, and you ought to remember it.

You said if I had a husband to travel about with me you would like very much to employ me in the search for Mr Keswick, and it was solely on that account that I went and got married." Observing the look of blank and utter amazement on his face, she smiled, and said: "Please don't look so horribly astonished.

Mr Null is void." As she made this remark the lady looked up at her companion with a smile and an expression of curiosity as to how he would take the announcement.
Lawrence gazed blankly at her for a moment, and then he broke into a laugh.

"You don't mean to say," he exclaimed, "that Mr Null is an imaginary being ?" "Entirely so," she replied.

"My dear Freddy is nothing but a fanciful idea, with no attribute whatever except the name." "You are a most extraordinary young person," said Lawrence; "almost as extraordinary as your aunt.