18/22 What a spitfire she is!' 'I never, never saw the like. And if you had heard Mrs.Higgins! Oh, what dreadful people! Clarence, hear me register a vow--' 'It was my fault, dear. I'm awfully sorry I got you in for such horrors. It was wholly and entirely my fault.' By due insistence on this, Mumford of course put his wife into an excellent humour, and, after they had dined, she returned to her regret that the girl should have gone so suddenly. Clarence, declaring that he would allow himself a cigar, instead of the usual pipe, to celebrate the restoration of domestic peace, soon led Emmeline into the garden. |