"Think Lane'll write to her?"
"He ought to, right off."
"Queer girl, ain't she?"
"Deuced!"
"Old Ayre! I say, Bob, you should have seen the old sinner at Baden."
"What? with Kate?"
"No; the other business."
And they plunged into matters with which we need not concern ourselves, and proceeded to rend and destroy the character of that most respectable, middle-aged gentleman, Sir Roderick Ayre. The historian hastens to add that their remarks were, as a rule, entirely devoid of truth, with which general comment we may leave them.