"A big man, a sort of giant ?" "A horrid man!" says Tita.
Mrs.Chichester looks at her as if amused.
"Why horrid ?" asks she.
"Oh, I don't know," says Tita, shrugging her shoulders.

"I didn't like him, anyway." "I'm sure I'm not surprised," says Tom Hescott.
He takes a step closer to Tita, as if to protect her.

It seems hideous to him that she should have to discuss--that she should even have known him.
"Well, neither am I," says Mrs.Chichester.

"He _is _horrid, and as ugly as the----" She had the grace to stop here, and change her sentence.

"As ugly can be." It is a lame conclusion, but she is consoled for it by the fact that some of her audience understand what the natural end of that sentence would have been.
"And what manners!" says she.