No, I'm not offended.

Why should I be?
Let everybody please herself is my motto.

Oh, _don't_ apologize, for it really doesn't matter in the very least! I'd far rather people were frank and said what they thought." "I'm going with you to Pompeii to-morrow at any rate," said Lorna.

"I'm glad they've put us both down together for that excursion." It was part of the educational scheme of Miss Rodgers and Miss Morley that the girls should be taken to certain places of interest in the neighborhood.

They were carefully prepared in class beforehand, so that they should thoroughly understand what they were going to see.