Joan shot at him one annihilating glance.

Miranda bubbled with indignation.
"Don't notice them, Joan dear! They don't know the meaning of words.
They are ribald, uneducated people.

You call your heroine Linda?
Linda--what ?" Mr.Jupp supplied a name.
"Linda Spavinsky," said he.

"She comes of the ancient Scottish family of that name." "Pig! O pig!" cried Joan, routed at last from her superior serenity; and a second afterwards her eyes danced and with a flash of sound white teeth she broke into honest laughter.

She did her best to suppress her sense of fun, but it would get the better of her from time to time.
This onslaught upon Joan Whitworth took place on the Wednesday evening.
Sir Chichester came into the room as it ended, with a telegram in his hand.
"Mario Escobar wires, Millie, that he is held up in London by press of work and will only be able to run down here on Friday for the night." Hillyard looked up.
"Mario Escobar ?" "Do you know him ?" asked Millie Splay.
"Slightly," answered Hillyard.