Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.

But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.

I laugh at him and use every little Art in my power to make him view things in a more cheerful light, but he knows better than I do, and tho' his good nature and politeness make him appear to be diverted with my foolings, I am sensible they do not amuse his melancholy.

I smiled back for him, thought about you, wondered what kind of night you were having, whether you had your wobbly boots on yet.