They call it gout, but to my certain knowledge he has organic disease so developed that you may depend upon it he'll go, some day soon, quite quickly.

Of course that sort of thing makes a dreadfully dull house; I wonder they have people when they can do so little for them.

Then I believe Mr.Touchett's always squabbling with his wife; she lives away from her husband, you know, in that extraordinary American way of yours.

If you want a house where there's always something going on, I recommend you to go down and stay with my sister, Lady Pensil, in Bedfordshire.

I'll write to her to-morrow and I'm sure she'll be delighted to ask you.