"Permission to fight the Duke, or Mr. Palliser?"
"No,—it's nothing about the hunting. He wants to know if you'd mind his staying here three or four days longer."
"What a very odd request!"
"It is odd, because he was to have gone to-morrow. I suppose there's no objection."
"Of course not if you like to have him."
"I don't like it a bit," said Lord Chiltern; "but I couldn't turn him out. And I know what it means."
"What does it mean?"
"You haven't observed anything?"
"I have observed nothing in Mr. Spooner, except an awe-struck horror at the trapping of a fox."
"He's going to propose to Adelaide Palliser."