CHAPTER TWO.
"TWO FOR A PAIR." "Hullo, Cinder!" "Hullo, Spoon!" "Who are you calling Cinder ?" "Who are you calling Spoon ?" "You.

Well, Ladle then, if you don't like Spoon." "And you have it Scorcher if you like, old Burnet." "Burnet's a better name than Ladelle." "Oh, is it! I don't know so much about that, Vincey.

And it isn't pronounced as if it was going into a soup tureen.

You know that well enough.

It's a fine old French name." "Of course I know your finicking way of calling it _Lah Delle_; but, if you're English, it's Ladle.