She was very much absorbed in her novel-writing, and took her work with a seriousness which struck the judge as ridiculous.
"I'll dine with you occasionally," he said, "but I shall put up at the hotel.

By the way, Milly, am I your tenant or are you mine?
I left all the arrangements in your hands." "I took the house and the fishing," she said.

"The agent man wouldn't let one without the other; but you have to pay most of the rent.

The salmon are the really valuable part of the property, it appears." "All right," said Sir Gilbert; "so long as the fishing is good I won't quarrel with you over my share of the rent.

The house would only have been a nuisance to me.