Oh! it's _most_ vexatious." "Perhaps they are very nice," I suggested feebly.
"Nice! Wait till you have seen them.

Besides if they had been angels I did not want them just now.

But how selfish I am! Come and have some tea.

And you can stop longer, that is if you live through the Atterby-Smiths who are worse than both the Kendah tribes put together.
Indeed I wish old Harut were coming instead.

I should like to see Harut again, wouldn't you ?" and suddenly the mystical look I knew so well, gathered on her face.
"Yes, perhaps I should," I replied doubtfully.