"No."
"Why not?"
"She was not invited."
"Then why are you here?"
"For this good reason, that I was invited."
"But, Tony," said Bessie, "you ought not to have accepted unless she was asked as well."
"Nonsense! Bet," exclaimed Anthony, fretfully. "I am not tied to her apron-strings. We have not met for months, and your first address to me is—a rebuke."
He walked away, annoyed, and rejoined Julian.
What! was he to be debarred visiting his friends—spending a pleasant social evening with them—because he was asked without his wife!
"I say, Tony," said Fox, into his ear, "what do you think of Kilworthy now? You have thrown it away for the sake of a pair of sulky eyes—aye, and Hall, too? Well I have always heard say that love was madness; but I never believed it till I heard what you had done."