"You know that I cannot get on without you. And he ought to know it too. There isn't another person in the world that I can really say a thing to."
"Why don't you have Mrs. Grey?"
"She's going to Persia after her husband. And then she is not wicked enough. She always lectured me, and she does it still. What do you think is going to happen?"
"Nothing terrible, I hope," said Mrs. Finn, mindful of her husband's new honours at the Admiralty, and hoping that the Duke might not have repeated his threat of resigning.
"We are going to Matching."
"So I supposed."
"And whom do you think we are going to have?"
"Not Major Pountney?"
"No;—not at my asking."
"Nor Mr. Lopez?"