still more to see Cecilia Travers, in whom Kenelm's accounts of her
had inspired a very strong interest. 

The day after his arrival in town Sir Peter breakfasted with Mivers. 

"Upon my word you are very comfortable here," said Sir Peter, glancing
at the well-appointed table, and round the well-furnished rooms. 

"Naturally so: there is no one to prevent my being comfortable.  I am
not married; taste that omelette." 

"Some men declare they never knew comfort till they were married,
Cousin Miners." 

"Some men are reflecting bodies, and catch a pallid gleam from the
comfort which a wife concentres on herself.  With a fortune so modest
and secure, what comforts, possessed by me now, would not a Mrs.
Chillingly Mivers ravish from my hold and appropriate to herself!
Instead of these pleasant rooms, where should I be lodged? In a dingy
den looking on a backyard excluded from the sun by day and vocal with