Don't be so rude," said Josephine.
"Browning for gravies.

Any relation of Robert ?" "Oh, yes! You ask my husband," came the slow, plangent voice of Clariss.
"You've got a husband, have you ?" "Rather! Haven't I, Juley ?" "Yes," said Julia, vaguely and wispily.

"Yes, dear, you have." "And two fine children," put in Robert.
"No! You don't mean it!" said Jim.

"Who's your husband?
Anybody ?" "Rather!" came the deep voice of Clariss.

"He sees to that." Jim stared, grinning, showing his pointed teeth, reaching nearer and nearer to Clariss who, in her frail scrap of an evening dress, amethyst and silver, was sitting still in the deep black hearth-rug, her arm over Julia's knee, taking very little notice of Jim, although he amused her.
"I like you awfully, I say," he repeated.
"Thanks, I'm sure," she said.
The others were laughing, sprawling in their chairs, and sipping curacao and taking a sandwich or a cigarette.