And where DO you get your ways of saying things?
It isn't anything--and the things aren't anything.

But it's so droll." "Don't let yourself, all the same," Mamie consistently pursued, "be carried away by it.

The thing can't be done--simply." Lady Wantridge wondered.

"'Done simply' ?" "Done at all." "But what can't be ?" "Why, what you might think--from his pleasantness.

What he spoke of your doing for him." Lady Wantridge recalled.