She said it at lunch today, and I do want to.

Lots of other boys go to the Zoo, and why shouldn't I?
I want to see it so much.' 'Edith, I must speak to Miss Townsend about this very seriously.

In the first place, people have got no right to talk about queer animals to the boy at all--we all know what he is--and in such language! I should have thought a girl like Miss Townsend, who has passed examinations in Germany, and so forth, would have had more sense of her responsibility--more tact.

It shows a dreadful want of--I hardly know what to think of it--the daughter of a clergyman, too!' 'It's all right, Bruce,' Edith laughed.

'Miss Townsend told me she had been to see the _Dame aux Camelias_ some time ago.