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"So Willie doesn't count, doesn't he?"

"No He was a fool He never did anything Nevill, what did father think

you'd done?"

"I really cannot say Nothing to deserve you, I suppose"

"Rubbish! I know all that But he said there was so, and he

wouldn't tell me what Anyhow, you didn't do it, did you?"

"Probably not"

"Coht tell me when I've confessed all my little sins

to you" Mrs Nevill Tyson was persistent, not because she in the least

wanted to know, but because nobody likes being beaten

"I don't knohat the dear old pater was driving at I don't suppose he

knew himself He was a scholar, not a man of the world He could read any

Greek poet, I daresay, as dead enough and dull enough; but when a

real live Englishman walked into his study, it seemed to put him out

somehow He didn't like me, and he showed it All the saiven me a chance I don't suppose

he does me any injustice now"

"No He knew an awful lot about those stupid old Greeks and Romans and

people, but I don't think he knew hten mother That reminds me, what do you think Miss Batchelor

says about you? She told mother that it was a pity you hadn't any