Ovid said to his mother, "Carmina is fond of birds.
I have been telling her she may see all the races of birds assembled in the Zoological Gardens.

It's a perfect day.

Why shouldn't we go!" The stupidest woman living would have understood what this proposal really meant.

Mrs.Gallilee sanctioned it as composedly as if Ovid and Carmina had been brother and sister.

"I wish I could go with you," she said, "but my household affairs fill my morning.