It's the silly will that brings us together, not an affinity.

Our every issue is identical, Lady Deppingham.

Doesn't it strike you that we will be very foolish if we stand alone and against each other ?" [Illustration: "'Don't you intend to present me to Lady Deppingham ?'"] "My solicitor--" began Lady Deppingham, and then stopped.

She was smiling in spite of herself.

This frank, breezy way of putting it had not offended her, after all, much to her surprise.
"Your solicitor and mine can get together and talk it over," said Browne blandly.