"I've been telling your sister how wonderful you are.

She's got to forgive you--I'll make her! And Jack will die laughing when I tell him." She herself burst into excited merriment that half-choked her.

"Just think of it--all the while he was looking--looking a big story straight in the face!" She was off to tell Jack.
"One might add, looking two big stories straight in the face, eh, Angelica, my dear ?" chuckled Mr.Pyecroft, _alias_ Mr.Preston.
One might add, three big stories, shivered Mrs.De Peyster.
But she did not add this aloud..