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THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
He paused and looked inquiringly round.
"Yes, Archdeacon," said Sir John Dubbs. "I fancy that we may grant you so much. Eh, Mr. Turton?"
"I don't say 'no,' Sir John," said Mr. Turton. "No, I don't say 'no' to that On the other hand, I don't say 'yes.' I conceive, ladies and gentlemen," he went on to the others, "that in an inquiry such as this, which promises to be of so much importance to English Letters, it behoves us to walk very warily." To this all his associates murmured a vague assent.
"May we not know," asked Mrs. Cutbush-Threape, "the name of this novel?"
"Yes," said Sir Ecclesford Smee, Sir William Keyne, Miss Badger and Miss Symkyn all together, "may we not know the name of the novel?"
