CHAPTER II

HOW GEORGE BELLEW SOUGHT COUNSEL OF HIS VALET The first intimation Bellew received of the futility of his hopes was the following letter which he received one morning as he sat at breakfast in his chambers in St. James' Street, W. "MY DEAR GEORGE, "I am writing to tell you that I like you so much that I am quite sure I could never marry you, it would be too ridiculous. Liking, you see, George, is not love, is it? Though, personally, I think all that sort of thing went out of fashion with our great-grandmother's h…