The two callers seized their hats.
"Could I intrust you with a message for Miss Minford, Mr. Overtop?"
"With a thousand," said that gallant man.
"Please, then, give my love to her, and ask her to come round and see me."
Mr. Overtop would have said that he always found it difficult to carry a lady's love to another without keeping some himself; but then he thought that this might be a little bold for a stray caller. So he answered, "With pleasure."
The two visitors bowed, and Miss Pillbody bent her head gracefully toward Mr. Overtop.
"What do you think of the schoolmarm?" asked Tiffles, when they had got into the street.
Overtop did not like the phrase "schoolmarm." "I think Miss Pillbody," said he, "is--a sensible woman."