It will be easy for you.

But of course they're immensely taken--!" He wondered.

"So immensely taken that they can't--that your father can't--give you his last evening in England ?" This, for Maggie, was more difficult to meet; yet she was still not without her stop-gap.

"That may be what they'll propose--that we shall go somewhere together, the four of us, for a celebration--except that, to round it thoroughly off, we ought also to have Fanny and the Colonel.
They don't WANT them at tea, she quite sufficiently expresses; they polish them off, poor dears, they get rid of them, beforehand.

They want only us together; and if they cut us down to tea," she continued, "as they cut Fanny and the Colonel down to luncheon, perhaps it's for the fancy, after all, of their keeping their last night in London for each other." She said these things as they came to her; she was unable to keep them back, even though, as she heard herself, she might have been throwing everything to the winds.