I found it in a clump of daffodils.’
Are they not lovely lines?”
“They sound like most uncommon nonsense, Kitty. Come and sit beside me, I have something far more sensible and important to tell you.”
“About the Bill, Father?”
“Partly about the Bill and partly about Edgar. Which news will you have first?”
“Mother will say ‘Edgar,’ and I go with mother.”
“I do not think you can tell me any news about Edgar, John.”
“Go on, Father, mother is only talking. She is so anxious she cannot pour the coffee straight. What about Edgar?”
“I must tell you that I made a speech two days before the House closed; and the papers said it was a very great speech, and I think it was a tone or two above the average. Did you read it?”
“You never sent us a paper, Father.”