10/15 I don't promise you a very lively evening, remember. There will only be Adela, and a lady she has taken as her companion." "I don't care about lively evenings. I have been nowhere in society since I returned from Melbourne. I have done with all that kind of thing." "My dear Gilbert, that sort of renunciation will never do," John Saltram said earnestly. "A man cannot turn his back upon society at your age. |