If it's really to be the last--pardon my alluding to it, but you must often have thought of the possibility--I'm sorry that I shall not be at Gardencourt." "You'll amuse yourself much more in Bedfordshire." "I shall be sorry to amuse myself at such a time," said Henrietta with much propriety.

But she immediately added: "I should like so to commemorate the closing scene." "My father may live a long time," said Ralph simply.

Then, adverting to topics more cheerful, he interrogated Miss Stackpole as to her own future.
Now that Ralph was in trouble she addressed him in a tone of larger allowance and told him that she was much indebted to him for having made her acquainted with Mr.Bantling.

"He has told me just the things I want to know," she said; "all the society items and all about the royal family.

I can't make out that what he tells me about the royal family is much to their credit; but he says that's only my peculiar way of looking at it.