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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. It was late the the following night when a packet was delivered to Sir Aubrey Man- nering, who saw at once that the long-desired documents had arrived. It was Saturday night, and he and Laura had just returned Irom the Opera. " I think," he said, as just opening the packet, and immediately closing it up again, " we may quite decide upon starting on Tuesday." " On Tuesday ! Oh, not on Tuesday, I hope," exclaimed Laura, in a tone of disappointment. I had settled so many things for Tuesday; and Lady Windermere has a Greenwich-dinner, and I positively promised to go with her. Couldn't you put it off for a few days?just to the end of the Aveek?" " Quite impossible," was the reply of Sir Aubrey. " Just two or three days," persisted Laura. " There is a breakfast at Wimbledon on Wednesday, that I want so much to go to. I like all the little parties at the end of the season, when half the people are gone. There can 'be no such great hurry to go to Baden?the waters won't run away." " I am going to Baden for the benefit of my health," replied her husband, pompously. " But you are not ill, Aubrey," saidLaura, gently; " if you were, I should not ask to stay a day here. But, indeed, it is too early for Baden. I have been there, and I know all about it. It is the stupidest place possible before the people come. We shall be shut up in our hotel all alone." And the countenance of Laura fell as she drew this picture of domestic felicity. " You will please to remember that I have been paying for rooms at that hotel for the last fortnight. It will be several days more before we get there, as I must stop a day or two in Paris. That will bring it to near three weeks. And the apartments at the Angle- terre are, I am told, the dearest in the town." " But they...