She is a genuine Mrs.Malaprop, isn't she ?" This was a trifle too deep for Mrs.Barnes, who replied that she didn't know, she having never met the Mrs.What's-her-name to whom her cousin referred.

"She's a genuine curiosity, this Parker woman, if that's what you mean, Emily," she said.

"And so's her brother, though a different kind of one.

We must get Cap'n Bangs to tell us more about 'em in the mornin'.

He thinks that--that heirloom house of mine will look better in the daylight.