What does your father and mother think--or rather, what do they say ?" "Father always says what he thinks, and mother thinks and says what I do.

This condition simplified matters very much.

Basil wrote to father, and yesterday after dinner he had an interview with him.

I expected it, and was quite prepared for any climax that might come.

I wore my loveliest white frock, and had lilies of the valley in my hair and on my breast; and father called me 'his little angel' and piously wondered 'how I could be his daughter.' All dinner time I tried to be angelic, and after dinner I sang 'Little Boy Blue' and some of the songs he loves; and I felt, when Basil's card came in, that I had prepared the proper atmosphere for the interview." "You are really very clever, Dora." "I tried to continue singing and playing, but I could not; the notes all ran together, the words were lost.