"What have you been doing ?" he asked Janet.
"Wonders," Lady Halifax responded for her.

"I can't think where she gets the energy or the brains--" "Can't you ?" her father interrupted.

"Upon my word!" Mr.
Cardiff had the serious facial muscles of a comedian, and the rigid discipline he was compelled to give them as a professor of Oriental tongues of London University intensified their effect when it was absurd.

The rest laughed, and his cousin went on to say that she wished _she_ had the gift.

Her daughter echoed her, looking at Janet in a way that meant she would say it, whatever the consequences might be.
"I must see something," said Kendal, "immediately." "_See_ something!" exclaimed Lady Halifax.