This was an old habit of hers.

She kept it up from love of fun, having no idea of the effect it produced on more ardent temperaments than her own.

He continued hastily: "Is Sir Charles within doors ?" "Oh, it's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of in my life," she exclaimed.

"A man that lives by himself in a place down by the Riverside Road like a toy savings bank--don't you know the things I mean ?--called Sallust's House, says there is a right of way through our new pleasure ground.

As if anyone could have any right there after all the money we have spent fencing it on three sides, and building up the wall by the road, and levelling, and planting, and draining, and goodness knows what else! And now the man says that all the common people and tramps in the neighborhood have a right to walk across it because they are too lazy to go round by the road.