She laughed and clapped her hands, and when the story was done she clapped them again.
"Oh, what a funny house! And how perfectly lovely that I'm going to live in it," she cried.

Then straight at Mrs.Hartwell she hurled a bombshell.

"But where is your stratum ?" she demanded.

"Mr.Bertram didn't mention a thing about you!" Cyril said a sharp word under his breath.

Bertram choked over a cough.
Kate threw into William's eyes a look that was at once angry, accusing, and despairing.