Excerpt from A Family Man: In Three Acts Builder. Glorious October! I ought to have a damned good day's shooting with Chantrey to-morrow. Mrs. Builder. [arranging the flowers] Aren't you going to the office this morning? Builder. Well, no, I was going to take a couple of days off. If you feel at the top of your form, take a rest - then you go on feeling at the top. [he looks at her, as if calculating] What do you say to looking up Athene? Mrs. Builder. [palpably astonished] Athene? But you said you'd done with her? Builder. [smiling] Six weeks ago; but, dash it, one can't have done with one's own daughter. That's the weakness of an Englishman; he can't keep up his resentments. In a town like this it doesn't do to have her living by herself. One of these days it'll get out we've had a row. That wouldn't do me any good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.