Zo, always ravenous at meals, forgot to say Amen.
Carmina, standing behind her chair, prompted her.

Zo said "Amen; oh, bother!" the first word at the top of her voice, and the last two in a whisper.

Mrs.Gallilee looked at Carmina as she might have looked at an obtrusive person who had stepped in from the street.

"You had better dress before luncheon," she suggested, "or you will keep the carriage waiting." Hearing this, Zo laid down her knife and fork, and looked over her shoulder.

"Ask if I may go with you," she said.