I am thoroughly ashamed of you," said Harold in reproof.

"It's 'How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.'" Here Joan intervened disdainfully.
"But that's not Browning!" Lady Splay looked perplexed.
"Are you sure, Joan ?" Joan tossed her head.
"Of course, it's Browning all right," she explained, "but it's not Browning if you understand me." The explanation left that company mystified.

Harold Jupp shook his head mournfully at Joan, and tapped his forehead.
"Excessive study, Joan, has turned that little head.

The moment I saw you in sandals I said to myself, 'Joan couldn't take the hill.'" Joan wrinkled her nose, and made a grimace at him.

What rejoinder she would have made no one was to know.