So if Dr Drummond has made up his mouth for scalloped oysters he'll be disappointed." "Mother," announced Stella, "I'm perfectly certain you'll have both." "I'll consider it," replied her mother.

"Meanwhile we would be better employed in thinking of what we have been hearing.

That's the third sermon from the Book of Job in six weeks.

I must say, with the whole of the two Testaments to select from, I don't see why the Doctor should be so taken up with Job." Stella was vindicated; Mrs Murchison did have both.

The chicken salad gleamed at one end of the table and the scalloped oysters smoked delicious at the other.