No, Im afraid that cant be, Emmeline, he said. The election came off to-day, and the Club has settled it can do without me.It was already the dinner-hour when he arrived home, and he went into his wifes boudoir to tell her to begin without waiting for him. To his astonishment he found her not yet dressed, and as he entered, she hastily picked up her handkerchief, which was on the floor, and applied it to her eyes.But I thought you were so full of energy and happiness, she said. What has happened?"I don't believe you! I don't believe you ever had cause for one!" She laid a hand again upon mine."Pooh!" said Harry, "'a decent respect to the opinions of mankind' requires just the reverse!" and the surgeon avowed that it was required by a decent respect to her powers of endurance; he was every day afraid her slow improvement would stop and she would begin to sink. He admitted the event could wait, but he wished to gracious we could have her decision.Im rather anxious about Charles, she said. He has got an appalling cough.