"Not even you!" The tone of the reply was sharp, with a dash of irony in it.

But where is the modern young man, possessed of health and an independent income, who is capable of understanding that irony can be presumptuous enough to address itself to _him ?_ Horace (with perfect politeness) declined to consider himself answered.
"Does your ladyship mean that Miss Roseberry is in bed ?" he asked.
"I mean that Miss Roseberry is in her room.

I mean that I have twice tried to persuade Miss Roseberry to dress and come downstairs, and tried in vain.

I mean that what Miss Roseberry refuses to do for Me, she is not likely to do for You--" How many more meanings of her own Lady Janet might have gone on enumerating, it is not easy to calculate.

At her third sentence a sound in the library caught her ear through the incompletely closed door and suspended the next words on her lips.