You'd never have time." "But I tell you I'd go anywhere.

Don't you believe it ?" "Yes, for once or twice.

But you'd soon see it wouldn't do for you." He smoked and considered; seemed to stretch himself a little and, with his legs out, surrender himself comfortably.

"Well, well, well--I believe everything you say.

I take it from you--anything you like--in the most extraordinary way." It struck her certainly--and almost without bitterness--that the way in which she was already, as if she had been an old friend, arranging for him and preparing the only magnificence she could muster, was quite the most extraordinary.