Anthony Hope

Dolly Dialogues Anthony Hope

The other day I paid a call on Miss Dolly Foster for the purpose of presenting to her my small offering on the occasion of her marriage to Lord Mickleham. It was a pretty little bit of jewelry a pearl heart, broken rubies played the part of blood and held together by a gold pin, set with diamonds, the whole surmounted by an earl's coronet. I had taken some trouble about it, and was grateful when Miss Dolly asked me to explain the symbolism. "It is my heart," I observed. "The fracture is your making; the pin" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin. "What nonsense, Mr. Carter!" she said; "but it's awfully pretty. Thanks so very very much. Aren't relations funny people?" "If you wish to change the subject, pray do," said I. "I'll change anything except my affections."