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"I am highly gratified," said Mr. Lorry, "though, upon my honour,

I had no intention of rendering those trifling articles of

remembrance invisible to any one. Dear me! This is an occasion

that makes a man speculate on all he has lost. Dear, dear, dear!

To think that there might have been a Mrs. Lorry, any time these

fifty years almost!"

"Not at all!" From Miss Pross.

"You think there never might have been a Mrs. Lorry?" asked the

gentleman of that name.

"Pooh!" rejoined Miss Pross; "you were a bachelor in your

cradle."

"Well!" observed Mr. Lorry, beamingly adjusting his little wig,

"that seems probable, too."

"And you were cut out for a bachelor," pursued Miss Pross,

"before you were put in your cradle."