"How do you want to be entertained?
No sermons to-day ?" and his eyes twinkled.

"Don't all speak at once.

I'm beginning to get nervous!" "You can tell the most beautiful stories," suggested Sheila, who had paid visits before to the Villa Bleue and knew the capabilities of her host.
"Oh, yes, please, _do_ tell us a story!" agreed the others.

"We'd like it better than anything." "I have one inside my desk which is just ready to send off to a magazine.

If it won't bore you to listen to it, I'll read it aloud and let you judge whether it has any interest in it or not.