Treason in his own house! His child speaking the two most hated of all words at his own dinner table and in laudatory terms.

He could scarcely believe it.

He looked at her a moment and then thundered: "How dare you! How dare you!" Angela smiled a little amusedly-tolerant smile as she looked frankly at her father and answered: "This is exactly the old-fashioned tone we English take to anything we don't understand.

And that is why other countries are leaving us in the race.

There is a nation living within a few hours' journey from our doors, yet millions of English people are as ignorant of them as if they lived in Senegambia." She paused, looked once more straight into her father's eyes and said: "And you, father, seem to be as ignorant as the worst of them!" "Angela!" cried her sister in horror.
Nathaniel laughed good-naturedly, leaned across to Angela and said: "I see our little sister has been reading the sensational magazines.
Yes ?" "I've done more than that," replied Angela.