The things we do!

Suppose--suppose you had married Miss Amory, sir, what a wretched worldly
creature you would have been by this time; whereas now----"
"Now that I am the humble slave of a good woman there is some chance for
me," cries this model of husbands. "And all good women are match-makers,
as we know very well; and you have had this match in your heart ever
since you saw the two young people together. Now; madam, since I did not
see your letter to the Colonel--though I have guessed part of it--tell
me, what have you said in it? Have you by any chance told the Colonel
that the Farintosh alliance was broken off?"
Laura owned that she had hinted as much.
"You have not ventured to say that Ethel is well inclined to Clive?"
"Oh, no--oh dear, no!" But after much cross-examining and a little
blushing on Laura's part, she is brought to confess that she has asked
the Colonel whether he will not come and see Mrs. Mason, who is pining to
see him, and is growing very old. And I find out that she has been to see
this Mrs.


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