He offered them Botanical Garden tickets--Zoological Garden tickets; he even, after some meditation and knitting of his shaggy grey eyebrows, bolted out with an invitation for the whole family to dinner at Russell Square the following Sunday.
"I always give my dinners on Sunday.

I've no time any other day," said he, when Miss Leaf gently hesitated.

"Come or not, just as you like." Miss Selina, to whom the remark was chiefly addressed, bowed the most gracious acceptance.

The visitor took very little notice of Miss Hilary.

Probably, if asked, he would have described her as a small, shabbily-dressed person, looking very like a governess.