Did Lady Ongar agree with her?
He felt as though he should like to know his Julia's opinion on that matter.
"Sophie, Captain Clavering will think that you are in earnest," said the countess, laughing.
"So I aim--in earnest.

It is all wrong.

You boil all the water out of de pot before you put the gigot into it.

So the gigot is no good, is tough and dry, and you shut it up in an old house in the country.

Then, to make matters pretty, you talk about de fields and de daisies.