21/25 I didn't like his look or his tone at all. I feel quite sure there's a joke going round at our expense. It'll be over in a day or two, and it'll be a lesson to you, Clarence, won't it ?' 'I quite admit that the idea was mine,' her husband replied, rather irritably. 'But it wasn't I who accepted the girl as a suitable person.' 'And certainly it wasn't _me_!' rejoined Emmeline. |