"I'm going to church this morning, and if he lectures me like this I shall have no appetite left for spiritual things." "I didn't know you ever had--much," replied Joan, laughing.
"Well, anyway, I've a thoroughly healthy appetite for my breakfast," said Diana, as they went into the dining-room.

"I'm feeling particularly cheerful just this moment.

I have a presentiment that something very delightful is going to happen to me to-day--though, to be sure, Sunday isn't usually a day when exciting things occur." "Dreams generally go by contraries," observed Joan sagely.

"And I rather think the same applies to presentiments.

I know that whenever I have felt a comfortable assurance that everything was going smoothly, it has generally been followed by one of the servants giving notice, or the bursting of the kitchen boiler, or something equally disagreeable." Diana gurgled unfeelingly.
"Oh, those are merely the commonplaces of existence," she replied.