"Goodness gracious! and you breakfasted with him?"
"Yes; and he has spent half an hour or more in the drawing room. I have told him all I had to tell, and he is now prowling about my dressing room."
"But what does he think about this affair?"
"I don't know;" indifferently.
"Why, it didn't take you all breakfast time to tell your story?"
"Oh, no; I told my story and Mr. Belknap listened very attentively; made some entries in his note book, remarked that he would have a report ready for me in the course of the day, and then turned his back upon the subject."
"Mercy!"
"He discussed the new opera, asked me if I had seen Neilson in Twelfth Night, gave a brilliant description of a young French drama by a young French author, gave me his opinion of Dickens, and looked his opinion of myself."
"What a remarkable person."
"Exceedingly so. His remarks have quite exhausted me."