Old?
oh, yes; I dare say he is old.

And, besides, just think: this learned gentleman has practised for twenty years in the Divorce Court! Now, I ask you, what can you expect from a gentleman, however learned, who has practised for twenty years in the Divorce Court?
I know him," went on Eustace, vindictively--"I know him.

He will fall in love with you himself.

Why, he would be an old duffer if he didn't." "Really," said Augusta, bursting out laughing, "you are too ridiculous, Eustace." "I don't know about being ridiculous, Augusta: but if you think I am going to let you be marched about by that learned Doctor without my being there to look after you, you are mistaken.

Why, of course he would fall in love with you, or some of his clerks would; nobody could be near you for a couple of days without doing so." "Do you think so ?" said Augusta, looking at him very sweetly.
"Yes, I do," he answered, and thus the conversation came to an end and was not resumed till dinner-time.
On the following morning at eleven o'clock, Eustace, who had managed to get a few days' leave from his employers, arrived with Mr.John Short to take Augusta and Lady Holmhurst--who was going to chaperon her--to Somerset House, whither, notwithstanding her objections of the previous day, she had at last consented to go.