‘One comfort is, she will never leave me her money now! But I must go in, and send Miss Piper for a walk with Harrison. My aunt must be repaying herself on her.’
‘Then I shall take another cigar, to get the damp out of my throat.’
‘You wretch, you like to boast of it!’
‘Ah! you don’t know what Percy learnt in Turkey.’
‘I know he always abominated smoking.’
‘Perhaps he’ll let you think so till you are married.’
‘For shame, Arthur! That’s the way you served your wife.’
‘Not I. She is duly grateful to me for only smoking at fit times and places, wherein I don’t resemble her precious brother.’
Arthur thus reported this conversation to his wife. ‘I met Theodora in the park. She is as remarkable an article as ever I saw.’
‘What do you think?—is she really attached to him?’