I'm for sound money all the time, if I may be permitted to speak American." "English is quite good enough for us, Lord Redgrave," said Miss Zaidie a little stiffly.

"We may have improved on the old language a bit, still we understand it, and--well, we can forgive its shortcomings.

But that isn't quite to the point." "It seems to me," said Mrs.Van Stuyler, "that we are getting nearly as far from the original subject as we are from the _St.Louis_.May I ask, Zaidie, what you really propose to do ?" "_Do_ is not for us to say," said Miss Zaidie, looking straight up to the glass roof of the deck-chamber.

"You see, Mrs.Van, we're not free agents.

We are not even first-class passengers who have paid their fares on a contract ticket which is supposed to get them there." "If you'll pardon me saying so," said Lord Redgrave, stopping his walk up and down the deck, "that is not quite the case.