"I hope that by this time Daisy and that Joe Chandler are right out of it." But the other shook his head silently.

"No such luck!" he said briefly.

"You don't know what it's like in Hyde Park, Ellen.

I expect 'twill soon be just as heavy here as 'twas half an hour ago!" She wandered over to the window, and pulled the curtain back.
"Quite a lot of people have come out, anyway," she observed.
"There's a fine Christmas show in the Edgware Road.

I was thinking of asking if you wouldn't like to go along there with me." "No," she said dully.