"I should be glad to see Mary. It is so long since we have met."
"I can't ask you to call as we are so unsettled. In a short time she will come and call upon you."
"I hope so. It is tantalizing to think she is in the same city, and yet not to meet."
"We all have our duties, and her duty is to her husband and son. I was surprised a few days since to meet Mark on the Central road."
"Yes; he went to Cleveland on business."
"Indeed! has he returned yet?"
"He returned two days since."
"For whom was he traveling?"
"I don't know that it is any secret. He had a business commission from Mr. Swan, a Broadway jeweler."
"He must be a strange business man to select a boy to travel for him."