Will you sit down?
In Mrs.Hornibrook's absence, I must represent her.

They are good enough to let me use the library; my own is poorly supplied." Denzil took a chair.
"Are you busy with any particular subject ?" he asked.
"The history of woman in Greece." "Profound! I have as good as forgotten my classics.

You read the originals ?" "After a fashion.

I don't know much about the enclitic _de_, and I couldn't pass an exam.

in the hypothetical sentences; but I pick up the sense as I read on." Her tone seemed to imply that, after all, she was not ill-versed in grammatical niceties.