Please sit down here for a moment, Gerald, beside me, and console me for my sufferings.' It was really very shameless.

Without a word Althea walked away.
'Miss Jakes--we'll--I'll follow in a moment,' Gerald called after her, while, irritated and at a loss, he stood over Lady Pickering.

'Have you really hurt it ?' was his first inquiry, as Althea disappeared.
'Why does she go ?' Lady Pickering inquired.

'I didn't mean that she was to go.

Stiff, _guindee_ little person.