"Tell her I'm out." "She saw you from the window." Margaret debated.

Said Lucia, "When she comes so soon after lunch she's always in a frightful mood.

She comes then to make a row because, without her after-lunch nap, she's hardly human and can be more--more fiendish." "I'll not see her," declared Margaret.
"Oh, yes, you will," said Lucia.

"Grandmother always has her way." Margaret turned to the maid.

"Tell her I had just gone to my room with a raging headache." The maid departed.