5/15 Perhaps some bank, in which he has put all his money, has broken. Perhaps he has found out that his brother is not _really_ dead after all! I dismiss this last _worst_ suggestion as improbable. The door opens, and he enters. "I thought you were never coming! Please, is _that_ your idea of ten minutes ?" "I could not help it," he answers; "he kept me talking; I could not get away any sooner." "Why did you go ?" say I, dutifully. "Why did not you say, when he asked you, 'No, I will not ?' He would have done it to you as soon as look at you." "That would have been so polite to one's host and father-in-law, would not it ?" he answers, a little ironically. |