'
'I have nothing signed this month. A short review in The Current,
that's all.'
'But I suppose you write as much as ever?'
'Yes; but chiefly in weekly papers just now. You don't see the
Will-o'-the-Wisp?'
'Oh yes. And I think I can generally recognise your hand.'
They issued from the library.
'Which way are you going?' Jasper inquired, with something more
of the old freedom.
'I walked from Gower Street station, and I think, as it's so
fine, I shall walk back again.'
He accompanied her. They turned up Museum Street, and Amy, after
a short silence, made inquiry concerning his sisters.
'I am sorry I saw them only once, but no doubt you thought it
better to let the acquaintance end there.'
'I really didn't think of it in that way at all,' Jasper
replied.'We naturally understood it so, when you even ceased to
call, yourself.'
'But don't you feel that there would have been a good deal of
awkwardness in my coming to Mrs Yule's?'
'Seeing that you looked at things from my husband's point of
view?'
'Oh, that's a mistake! I have only seen your husband once since
he went to Islington.
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