Now, look here, Miss Garston.
I will say something civil.

I believe you are in earnest; so it shall be _pax_ between us; and I will promise not to thwart you.

As for women's mission in general, I believe their principal mission is not to stop at home and mind their own business; in fact, home and homely duties are the last straws that break the back of the emancipated woman.' And with these audacious words Mr.Hamilton stirred the fire again with prodigious energy.

Happily, Uncle Max came into the room at that moment; so I was spared any reply.
Max must have thought that I was suspiciously glad to see him, for he looked from one to the other rather anxiously.
'Sorry to be so late, Ursula; but I met Pardoe, and he entrapped me into an argument.

Well, how have you and my friend Hamilton got on together ?' I turned away without answering, but Mr.Hamilton responded, in a melancholy voice-- 'I have been suppressed, like the dormouse in Alice's teapot.