But surely you don't like their slang ?' Helen smiled at the recollection of it.

'More fun than a goat,' she quoted.

'Why shouldn't they talk slang ?' 'Dear Helen,'-- they had come quite happily to Christian names--'surely you care for keeping the language pure.

Surely you think it regrettable that the younger generation should defile and mangle it like that.' But Helen only laughed, and confessed that she really didn't care what happened to the language.

'There'll always be plenty of people to talk it too well,' she said.
Mrs.Pepperell, on her side, had her verdict, and she gave it some days later when she and her niece were driving to the dressmaker's.
'She is a very nice girl, Miss Buchanan, and clever, too, in her quiet English way, though startlingly ignorant.