"What circumstance?"
"Ladies and gentlemen sometimes do change their minds;—but in this case I do not think it likely."
"And why ain't you being married now, Mr. Fletcher?"
"We have agreed to postpone it till next year;—so that we may be quite sure of our own minds."
"I know you are laughing at me; but nevertheless I am very glad that it is settled. Pray tell her from me that I shall call again as soon as ever she is Mrs. Fletcher, though I don't think she repaid either of the last two visits I made her."
"You must make excuses for her, Duchess."
"Of course. I know. After all she is a most fortunate woman. And as for you,—I regard you as a hero among lovers."
"I'm getting used to it," she said one day to Mrs. Finn.
"Of course you'll get used to it. We get used to anything that chance sends us in a marvellously short time."
"What I mean is that I can go to bed, and sleep, and get up and eat my meals without missing the sound of the trumpets so much as I did at first. I remember hearing of people who lived in a mill, and couldn't sleep when the mill stopped. It was like that with me when our mill stopped at first. I had got myself so used to the excitement of it, that I could hardly live without it."