She glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. People always rejoice at the misfortunes of others—never at their own! The droll dogs! how they must have enjoyed it!—ha! ha!" "I dare say they did. No offence, I hope. She had expected sympathetic admiration, but instead the whole Widgett family, except Teddy, expressed a common dismay. "Excuse me," he said, plunging his fork into a fowl, and transferring it to his plate. She said there was no other way to get them to stop their constant screaming. She would be enduing this chap with attributes he did not possess, clothing him in fictional ruffles. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. McClintock was amused. “I believe that you are quite safe. They both listened intently.