Comme on dit en Anglais_--fly with me!' I remarked that our state when we got to the Champs de Mars would be an effective disguise.

He didn't understand, and it was delicious!" I laughed.

"All the same," I observed, "I can't see the fun of making jokes which the person to whom you make them doesn't see the point of." "Why, that's your own peculiar form of humour," she retorted.

"I caught the trick from you." Perhaps she is right.

I have noticed that people are slow in their appreciation of my witticisms.