Eight per cent. It melted her heart. She lunched at a creamery in Great Portland Street, and as the day was full of wintry sunshine, spent the rest of the lunch-hour in a drowsy gloom, which she imagined to be thought upon the problems of her position, on a seat in Regent’s Park. I am used, you understand, to guard my secret. Upon this, Jack earnestly and eloquently addressed himself to the bench, and besought that a petition which he had prepared to be laid before the King might be read. All her life Martha had been there. ’ Too late he saw his error. His grief was so audible, that it attracted the notice of some of the bystanders, and Thames was obliged to beg him to control it.