"He wouldn't do that by the groom."
"I'd send him mine by a chimney-sweep if there were nobody else." Then the door was opened, and in half a second she was in her husband's arms. "Oh, George, my darling, my own, I am so happy. I thought you would come. Oh, my dear!" Then the Dean crept out without a word, and the husband and the wife were together for hours.
"Do you think she is well," said Lord George to the Dean in the course of the afternoon.
"Well? why shouldn't she be well!"
"In this condition I take it one never quite knows."
"I should say there isn't a young woman in England in better general health. I never knew her to be ill in my life since she had the measles."
"I thought she seemed flushed."
"No doubt,—at seeing you."
"I suppose she ought to see the doctor."
"See a fiddlestick. If she's not fretted she won't want a doctor till the time comes when the doctor will be with her whether she wants him or not. There's nothing so bad as coddling. Everybody knows that now. The great thing is to make her