Excerpt from The Broughton House

"Do you suppose Mr. Sonderby will come, my dear? It would be just like him not to appear, after all. You never can tell anything about that man."

Mrs. Ellerton hardly looked at her husband as she spoke, for she was taking a last rapid survey of the tiny tea-table, and as she uttered the words "anything about that man, " she bent over and made a more accurate right angle of the tea knife and spoon at the visitor's plate. She was a trifle heated, - the result of overseeing a half-trained girl in the kitchen, - and she wore, albeit some what lightly, that anxiety of the young house keeper which finds in over-accuracy a compensation for the lack of experience. Arthur Ellerton was standing by the door of the dining-room, arrayed in a gray flannel study-gown and slippers. Behind him could be seen the desk he had just left, and the stained pine shelves that contained his scanty library.

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