Perhaps it isn't a good way, but it's the only way I've got.

Now let us talk about Loftus.

I wonder if he is going to stay long, and if he will make himself pleasant." "No fear of that," responded Mabel.

"He'll be as selfish and exacting as ever he can be.

He'll keep mother in a state of fret, and you in a state of excitement, and he'll insist on smoking a cigarette close to the new cretonne curtains in the drawing-room, and he'll make me go out in the hot part of the day to gather fresh strawberries for him.