For the first time they introduced champagne at dinner.

Not real champagne, but plenty real enough for the amount of imagination expended on it.

It was Sally that did it, and Aleck weakly submitted.

At bottom both were troubled and ashamed, for he was a high-up Son of Temperance, and at funerals wore an apron which no dog could look upon and retain his reason and his opinion; and she was a W.C.T.

U., with all that that implies of boiler-iron virtue and unendurable holiness.