"Jane Grieve may not prove a suitable person." "The name somehow sounds too young and inexperienced," observed Salemina, "and what association have I with the phrase 'sister's husband's niece' ?" "You have heard me quote Lewis Carroll's verse, perhaps:-- 'He thought he saw a buffalo Upon the chimney-piece; He looked again and found it was His sister's husband's niece: "Unless you leave the house," he said, "I'll send for the police!"' The only thing that troubles me," I went on, "is the question of Willie Beresford's place of residence.

He expects to be somewhere within easy walking or cycling distance,--four or five miles at most." "He won't be desolate even if he doesn't have a thatched roof, a pansy garden, and a blossoming shrub," said Salemina sleepily, for our business arrangements and discussions had lasted well into the evening.
"What he will want is a lodging where he can have frequent sight and speech of you.

How I dread him! How I resent his sharing of you with us! I don't know why I use the word 'sharing,' forsooth! There is nothing half so fair and just in his majesty's greedy mind.

Well, it's the way of the world; only it is odd, with the universe of women to choose from, that he must needs take you.

Strathdee seems the most desirable place for him, if he has a macintosh and rubber boots.