‘It will require tact. Only experience can show what my course must be.’
‘I sincerely hope the house will be sold. Otherwise, the outlook is deplorable.’
‘I assure you it will be. My husband does not give up anything he has once put his hand to.’
‘I shall keep my own counsel at home,’ Wilfrid said.
‘Do so, certainly. And you will return to Oxford?’
‘I think so. I shall find it easier to live there—if, indeed, I can live anywhere.’
‘I had rather you hadn’t added that,’ said Mrs. Baxendale with good-natured reproof. ‘You know that you will only work the harder just to forget your trouble. That, depend upon it, is the only way of killing the time, as you said; if we strike at him in other ways we only succeed in making him angry.’
‘Another apophthegm,’ said Wilfrid, with an attempt at
