The things we do!

This business occupied not only one season, but two. By the time of the
second season, Mr. Newcome had made so many acquaintances that he needed
few more introductions into society. He was very well known as a
good-natured handsome young man, and a very good waltzer, the only son of
an Indian officer of large wealth, who chose to devote himself to
painting, and who was supposed to entertain an unhappy fondness for his
cousin the beautiful Miss Newcome. Kind folks who heard of this little
tendre, and were sufficiently interested in Mr. Clive, asked him to their
houses in consequence. I dare say those people who were good to him may
have been themselves at one time unlucky in their own love-affairs.
When the first season ended without a declaration from my lord, Lady Kew
carried off her young lady to Scotland, where it also so happened that
Lord Farintosh was going to shoot, and people made what surmises they
chose upon this coincidence. Surmises, why not? You who know the world,
know very well that if you see Mrs.


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