"Good-evening, Mrs.
Loxley.

Good-evening, Peter.

Thank you, thank you.

I'm very glad to get home too--I should think not!" These sentences were replies to the warm greetings Jack received from the cottage-doors; the last to the remark, "You don't find a many places to beat t'ould one, sir, I expect!" "I'm very popular in the village," said my eccentric companion, with a sigh, as we turned into the drive.

"Though I say it that shouldn't, you think?
Well! _Ita vita.