18/19 Has the dressing-bell gone yet ?" "You gross person," she exclaimed. "You ate so much tea you had to go to sleep." "It was the exercise, he insisted. I heard you ask for a place without any walking, and where as few people as possible could see you miss your birds." "Your ears are a great deal too sharp," he said. "It was the wind, then." "Never mind what it was," she answered, laughing. "You can go to sleep again if you like." Molyneux put up his eyeglass and looked from one to the other. |