rooms already existing for that purpose. We think the fourth
room on your right, as you leave the back stairs, going south.
This is locally known as the Green Room and takes its name, not,
as you may imagine, from the fact that the late Sir Henry Irving
once slept there, but from the hue of the rodents, said there
frequently to have been observed by the fourth Earl. Please
execute the work with your customary diligence. We should like
to pay on the hire system, i.e., so much a month, extending over
a period of two years. The great strides, recently made in the
perilous art of aviation, suggest to us that the windows should
be of ground glass. Yours faithfully, etc. P.S. - lf your men
drop the bath on the stairs, the second footman will at once
apply for a warrant for their arrest."

Jill buried her face in the sofa-cushions and gave way to
unrestrained merriment. Jonah laughed openly. I set my teeth
and tried not to smile. For an instant the corners of Daphne's
mouth twitched. Then:

"Wretched ass," she said.

"The truth is," said her husband, "you don't know literature when
you see it. Now that letter- "

"I suppose I shall have to write to the man," said I.

"There you are," said Berry. "Insults at every turn. I was
about to say that I regarded that letter as one of the brightest
jewels in an already crowded diadem."