"You can't go to the hotel in the character of her husband.

I have prevented that.

Where else are you to meet her?
She is all alone; she must be weary of waiting, poor thing.

Can you manage matters so as to see her to-day ?" After staring hard at Arnold while he was speaking, Geoffrey burst out laughing when he had done.

A disinterested anxiety for the welfare of another person was one of those refinements of feeling which a muscular education had not fitted him to understand.
"I say, old boy," he burst out, "you seem to take an extraordinary interest in Miss Silvester! You haven't fallen in love with her yourself--have you ?" "Come! come!" said Arnold, seriously.