"
_True Love_.--"Indeed! If I wished to be severe I might remark: that I
am sure you have found at last your true vocation!"
_Bailiff's Daughter_.--"It was certainly through no desire to please
_you_ that I chose it."
_True Love_.--"I am quite sure of that! Are you staying in this part?"
_Bailiff's Daughter_.--"Oh no! I live many miles distant, over an
extremely rough road. And you?"
_True Love_.--"I am still at the Hydropathic; or at least my luggage is
there."
_Bailiff's Daughter_.--"It must be very pleasant to attract you so long."
_True Love_.--"Not so pleasant as it was."
_Bailiff's Daughter_.--"No? A new proprietor, I suppose."
_True Love_.--"No; same proprietor; but the house is empty."
_Bailiff's Daughter_ (yawning purposely).--"That is strange; the hotels
are usually so full at this season. Why did so many leave?"
_True Love_.--"As a matter of fact, only one left. 'Full' and 'empty'
are purely relative terms. I call a hotel full when it has you in it,
empty when it hasn't."
_Bailiff's Daughter_ (dying to laugh, but concealing her feelings).--"I
trust my bulk does not make the same impression on the general public!
Well, I won't detain you longer; good afternoon; I must go home to my
evening work."
_True Love_.--"I will accompany you."
_Bailiff's Daughter_.--"If you are a gentleman you will remain where you
are."
_True Love_.--"In the road? Perhaps; but if I am a man I shall follow
you; they always do, I notice.
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