Dinner was quite uneventful. Much more temperate; the discreet and joyless love of a virtuous, reluctant, condescending wife. Or mad, just as the captain had said so many times. “I can see you and Anna groaning and nodding your grave heads together. What's this?" he added, stooping to pick up a piece of paper lying at his feet—it was Jonathan's memorandum. He came in apologetically; all the old “Well, and how ARE we?” note gone; and once he asked Ann Veronica, almost furtively, “How’s Alice getting on, Vee?” Finally, on the Day, he appeared like his old professional self transfigured, in the most beautiful light gray trousers Ann Veronica had ever seen and a new shiny silk hat with a most becoming roll. Then I assumed a rather portentous manner to prepare him. "And so you'll turn highwayman, will you, you young dog?" continued the carpenter, cuffing him soundly,—"rob the mails, like Jack Hall, I suppose. ’ Alderley grinned as his incensed friend refuted the suggestion that he was in need of a pacifier, and moved to the tray which his butler had just a short time past brought into the room and laid on the desk. “Confound sex from first to last!” said Ann Veronica. All they left it was the moon and stars. "I can readily see," he said, "why you'll always be as poor as a church mouse.
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