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The necessary explanation followed this avowal as a matter of course , and , to Mr. Carling 's great delight , his friend turned on him gayly with the most surprising and satisfactory of answers : `` You do n't know half the resources of my miles of bookshelves , '' he said , `` or you would never have thought of going to London for what you can get from me . A whole side of one of my rooms upstairs is devoted to periodical literature . I have reviews , magazines , and three weekly newspapers , bound , in each case , from the first number ; and , what is just now more to your purpose , I have the _ Times _ for the last fifteen years in huge half-yearly volumes . Give me the date to-night , and you shall have the volume you want by two o'clock to-morrow afternoon . '' The necessary information was given at once , and , with a great sense of relief , so far as his literary anxieties were concerned , Mr. Carling went home early to see what the quieting medicine had done for his wife . She had dozed a little , but had not slept . However , she was evidently better , for she was able to take an interest in the sayings and doings at the dinner-party , and questioned her husband about the guests and the conversation with all a woman 's curiosity about the minutest matters .