The things we do!

"And you would not answer the second letter I wrote to you?
"We were in great perplexity. One cannot be always answering young
gentlemen's letters. I had considerable doubt about answering a note I
got from Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square," says the lady's chapeau. "No,
Clive, we must not write to one another," she continued more gravely, "or
only very, very seldom. Nay, my meeting you here to-day is by the merest
chance, I am sure; for when I mentioned at Lady Fareham's the other
evening that I was going to see papa at Brighton to-day, I never for one
moment thought of seeing you in the train. But as you are here, it can't
be helped; and I may as well tell you that there are obstacles."
"What, other obstacles?" Clive gasped out.
"Nonsense--you silly boy! No other obstacles but those which always have
existed, and must. When we parted--that is, when you left us at Baden,
you knew it was for the best. You had your profession to follow, and
could not go on idling about--about a family of sick people and children.


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