Chapter 61 NONSUCH HOUSE AGAIN 61

'MR. SPONGE, MY LADY'

he gallant inmates of Nonsuch House had resolved themselves into a committee of speculation, as to whether Mr. Sponge was coming or not; indeed, they had been betting upon it, the odds at first being a hundred to one that he came, though they had fallen a point or two on the arrival of the post without an answer.

'Well,