"You did, Lady Grace.
And I'm going.

Good-bye!" He pocketed the coin, winked at his friend, and departed whistling.
"A very unmannerly little boy!" observed Lady Grace, with severity.
"Come, my dear Rose! We must go in." "I don't like either the one or the other," said Rose, with a very unusual touch of petulance.

"They are always in the way." "I fully agree with you," said Lady Grace acidly.

"But it is for the first and last time in their lives.

I have already told the Colonel so.
He will never ask them to accompany us again." "Thank goodness for that!" said Rose, with restored amiability.