Awfully good of you to let me--er--see all these--er--interesting and er--m-m-m--things, Louis.
Glad I saw that dream of a peacherino, too.

What is she on the side?
An actorine?
If she is I'll take a box for the rest of the season including the road and one-night stands....

Good-bye, Mrs.Collis! Good-bye, Stephanie! _Good_-bye, Louis!--I'll come and spend the day with you when you're too busy to see me.

Now, Stephanie, child! It's the Stock Exchange or the Little Church around the Corner for you and me, if you say so!" Stephanie had duties at a different sort of an Exchange; and she also took her leave, thanking Neville warmly for the pleasure she had had, and promising to lunch with Lily at the Continental Club.
When they had departed, Lily said: "I suppose that is a portrait of your model, Valerie West." "Yes," he replied shortly.
"Well, Louis, it is perfectly absurd of you to show so plainly that you consider our discovery of it a desecration." He turned red with surprise and irritation: "I don't know what you mean." "I mean exactly what I say.

You showed by your expression and your manner that our inspection of the picture and our questions and comments concerning it were unwelcome." "I'm sorry I showed it....