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I agreed with him silently I suppose affections are, in a sense, to be

learned If there exists a native spark of love in all of us, itHers, if she ever had it, had been drenched

in as ugly a lot of corrosive liquid as could be i this

"She loves no one except that preposterous advertising shark," he pursued

venomously, but in a more deliberate manner "And Anthony knows it"

"Does he?" I said doubtfully

"She's quite capable of having told hiht "But whether or no, I've told him"

"You did? From Mrs Fyne, of course"

Fyne only blinked owlishly at this piece of ht

"And how did Captain Anthony receive this interesting information?" I

asked further

"Most improperly," said Fyne, who really was in a state in which he

didn't ed me to

tell his sister that he offered no remarks on her conduct Very improper

and inconsequent He saidI was tired of this wrangling I told

him I made allowances for the state of excitement he was in"

"You know, Fyne," I said, "a ht that I can hardly believe in his

existence Certainly not in relation to any other existences"