I beg your pardon, Sir Everard; but indeed I can not help it.

It is so funny!" "So I perceive.

Good-morning, Miss Hunsden." "And now you are angry.

Why, Sir Everard!" catching for the first time a glimpse of his deathly white face, "I didn't think you felt like this.

Oh! I beg your pardon with all my heart for laughing.