"Really, Jasper, you seldom speak of anybody else. In fact I am growing quite jealous of this friend."
After the diversion caused by this speech, I resumed—
"But really Tom is the best of fellows, and if I talk much of him it is because he is my only friend. You must see him, Claire, and you will be sure to like him. He is so clever!"
"What is the name of this genius—I mean the other name?"
"Why, Loveday, of course—Thomas Loveday. Do you mean to say I have never told you?"
"Never," said Claire, meditatively. "Loveday—Thomas Loveday—is it a common name?"
"No, I should think not very common. Don't you like it?"
"It—begins well."
Here followed another diversion.
"But what I was going to say about Tom," I continued, "is this—he has fallen in love; in fact, I have never seen a man so deeply in love."