Your carriage is a coupe, and I cannot think of crowding you." "Why, you don't seriously want to affront me, I hope, for I flatter myself that a more perfect carriage for two people cannot be built.
Hobson made it on a plan of my own, and I am excessively proud of it, I assure you.

Come, that matter is decided--now for supper.

Are there many English here just now ?--By-the-by, those new 'natives' I think I saw you standing with on the balcony--who are they ?" "Oh! the ladies--oh! Yes, people I came over with--" "One was pretty, I fancied.

Have you supped?
Just order something, will you--meanwhile, I shall write a few lines before the post leaves." -- Saying which, he dashed up stairs after the waiter, and left me to my meditations.
"This begins to be pleasant," thought I, as the door closed, leaving me alone in the "salon." In circumstances of such moment, I had never felt so nonplussed as now, how to decline Kilkee's invitation, without discovering my intimacy with the Binghams--and yet I could not, by any possibility, desert them thus abruptly.

Such was the dilemma.