Isn't it very rude of them ?" "Rude?
Well--I can't say they've been exactly rude," acknowledged Aunt Charlotte.

"But they're making all sorts of difficulties, and hint that they know better than I do----" "Which is absurd, of course," put in Austin, with his very simplest air.
Aunt Charlotte glanced sharply at him, but there was not the faintest trace of irony in his expression.

"I fancy they don't quite understand the question," she said, "so I intend to run up and explain it to them.

One can do these things so much better in conversation than by writing.

I shall get lunch in town, and then there'll be time for me to do a little shopping, perhaps, before catching the 4.40 back.