Now I must go and finish dressing.

We shall be late as it is." She gathered together her fan and gloves, for she had petulantly dragged off a pair which did not fit.
"And you will ask Maggie to come with us ?" she said.
He held open the door for her to pass out, gravely polite even to his wife--this old-fashioned man.
"Yes," he answered; "but why do you want me to ask her ?" "Because I want her to come.".