If this detestably superior individual chose to think her utterly heartless and selfish--why, let him think so! "And the car ?" she asked in a tone of deliberate indifference.

"That's quite as important as the chauffeur." "More so, surely ?"--with polite irony.

"The car, I am sorry to say, will take a good deal of repairing.

At present it's still in the middle of the street with red lights fore and aft.

It can't be moved till the fog lifts." "What a nuisance! How on earth am I to get home ?" "There are such things as taxis"-- suggestively.