My Vere shall have it.
QUECKETT.
Thank you—thank you. [Sitting before the fire, opening the newspaper, and humming a tune.] Let me see—let me see. Ah, here we are—"Court of Bankruptcy—before the Official Receiver." Lime-house came up again for hearing yesterday. How they bother him! They bothered me in '75. Now, here's a coincidence, Carrie. In 1875 my assets were nil—in 1885 dear old Bob's assets are nil. Now that's deuced funny.
MISS DYOTT.
Vere, dear, have you forgotten what to-day is?
QUECKETT.
[Referring to the head of paper.] December the twenty-second.
MISS DYOTT.
Yes, but it's the day on which I am to quit my Verey.