As for the reading, no one could read the _Sporting and Dramatic News_ and the _Era_ so well as Little Brick.

Sometimes he spoke with her about his wife, but only in general terms of bitterness, and not always complainingly.

She listened and said nothing.
"I'm a chap that wants very little," he said once.

"Those who want little, get nothing." That was all he said, but Bernardine knew to whom he referred.
To-day, as Bernardine was on her way back to the Kurhaus, she was thinking constantly of Mrs.Reffold, and wondering whether she ought to be made to realize that her husband was becoming rapidly worse.

Whilst engrossed with this thought, a long train of sledges and toboggans passed her.