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"Fred likes no one but Dora Stanhope"

"Eh! What! Is that nonsense going on yet?"

Then Ethel described her last two intervieith Dora She did this with scrupulous fidelity, ht prejudice the case For she really wanted her grandmother's decision in order to frame her own conduct by it Madaive it

"What do you think?" she asked Ethel

"I have known Dora forabout Fred?"

"Nothing"

"Nothing to tell, perhaps?"

"Perhaps"

"Where does her excellent husband come in?"

"She says he is very kind to her in his way"

"And his way is to drag her over the world to see the cathedrals thereof, and to vary that pleasure with inspecting schools and reforreat preachers Upon my word, I feel sorry for the child! And I know all about such excellent people as the Stanhopes I used to go to what they call 'a pleasant evening' with the roo conversation, or so Away' or 'He Never Sain' Perhaps there was a cohed, and finally we had wine and hot water--they called it 'port negus'--and tongue sandwiches and caraway cakes My dear Ethel, I yahen I think of those dreary evenings What ht out of theparties?"

"Still, Dora ought to try to feel some interest in the church affairs She says she does not care a hairpin for them, and Basil feels so hurt"

"I dare say he does, poor fellow! He thinks St Jude's Kindergarten and sewing circles and ht enough for Basil, but how about Dora?"

"They are his profession; she ought to feel an interest in them"

"Co his 'deals' and stock-jobbery home, and expect Dora and her mother to feel an interest in them? Do doctors tell their wives about their patients, and expect the visits? Does your father expect Ruth and yourself to listen to his cases and argu for theeneral, consider it a wife's place to interfere in their profession or business?"