If not, why should I have been a singer on the stage at so early an age, why a dancer, why should I have married such a one as Mr.
Smith ?' 'I do not know of what sort he was,' said Caldigate.
'This is not the time to ask, when you have just come to see me;--when I am so delighted to see you! Oh, it is such a pleasure! I have not had a nice word spoken to me since I left the Goldfinder.

Come and take a walk in the gardens?
Nobody knows me off the stage yet, and nobody knows you.
So we can do just as we like.

Come and tell me about the gold.' He did go, and did tell her about the gold, and before he had been with her an hour, sitting about on the benches in that loveliest of all places, the public gardens at Sydney, he was almost happy with her.

It was now late in the autumn, in May; but the end of the autumn in Sydney is the most charming time of the year.

He spent the whole day with her, dining with her in her lodgings at five in order that he might take her to the theatre at seven.