"You haven't committed yourself to asking any one, by the bye ?" "Not a soul," his wife answered, "except Sir Charles.

I had to ask him, of course, for Penelope." "Naturally," the Duke assented.

"I am glad Penelope will be there.

I only wish that she were English instead of American, and that Maiyo would take a serious fancy to her." "Perhaps," the Duchess said dryly, "you would like him to take a fancy to Grace ?" "I shouldn't mind in the least," her husband declared.

"I never met a young man whom I respected and admired more." "Nor I, for that matter," the Duchess agreed.