I'll give even Miss West the benefit of my doubt.

I will even go so far as to forgive her for spoiling my fun to-night.

Now smile and say, 'Emma, I always knew you to be the soul of magnanimity.'" Grace laughed outright at this modest assertion, and obligingly repeated the required words.
"Now that my reputation has been once more established, and because I don't feel half so wrathful as I did ten minutes ago," declared Emma, "let us lay the Sphinx peacefully to rest and do the bazaar arm in arm.".