'You will please to remember that I said again and again--' 'Oh, hang it, Emmy! We made a blunder, both of us, and don't let us make it worse by wrangling about it.

There you are; people of that class bring infection into the house.

If she stayed here a twelvemonth, we should have got to throwing things at each other.' The answer to Louise's letter of remonstrance came in the form of Mrs.Higgins herself.

Shortly before luncheon that lady drove up to "Runnymede" in a cab, and her daughter, who had just returned from a walk, was startled to hear of the arrival.
'You've got to come home with me, Lou,' Mrs.Higgins began, as she wiped her perspiring face.

'I've promised to have you back by this afternoon.