"It was entirely those other people's fault," he said.

"They got me in a kind of a corner, because neither of those fellows knows the least thing about guiding; they just jam ahead and expect everybody to get out of their way.

It was Charlotte Thom's diamond crescent pin that got caught on your dress in the back and made such a----" "Never mind," Alice said in a tired voice.

"The maid fixed it so that she says it isn't very noticeable." "Well, it isn't," he returned.

"You could hardly tell there'd been anything the matter.