Why, only the other day my father said--" "Excuse me.

What is the average price of a walking-dress from a leading Paris house ?" "Thirty pounds." "And an evening dress ?" "Oh, anything, from fifty upwards." He picked up a few pieces of quartz from the canvas sheet.
"Here is your walking-dress," he said, handing her a lump weighing about a pound.

"With the balance in the heap there you can stagger the best-dressed woman you meet at your first dinner in England." "Do you mean by pelting her ?" she inquired, mischievously.
"Far worse.

By wearing a more expensive costume." His manner was so earnest that he compelled seriousness.

Iris took the proffered specimen and looked at it.
"From the cave, I suppose?
I thought you said antimony was not very valuable ?" "That is not antimony.