I don't know that I should have kept it, but Dr.Ashton put in his veto also; and between the two I was kept away.

For many weeks afterwards I never saw or spoke to Anne.

She did not come out at all, even to church; they were so anxious the fever should not spread." "Well?
Go on, Val." "Well: how does that proverb run, about idleness being the root of all evil?
During those weeks I was an idle man, wretchedly bored; and I fell into a flirtation with Maude.

She began it, Carr, on my solemn word of honour--though it's a shame to tell these tales of a woman; and I joined in from sheer weariness, to kill time.

But you know how one gets led on in such things--or I do, if you, you cautious fellow, don't--and we both went in pretty deep." "Elster's folly again! How deep ?" "As deep as I well could, short of committing myself to a proposal.