Have you got much to do, Hardy?" "No," said his partner, briskly.

You did once, you know, at the May party, and none of the other girls had so courtly a partner.

*** At the St. Pancras Tribunal last week an applicant said his only remaining partner had been ill in bed for some weeks, and the Chairman of the Tribunal promptly remarked, "Obviously a sleeping partner.

" "Miss Longworth," he continued, laying his hand for a moment upon her arm, "you know from what your uncle said last night that we are all practically his partners.