"Refreshing, isn't it?
Ha! ha!" "It is if one cares for such things.

I am afraid _I_ don't appreciate them.

They may be well enough in their place, but--" She finished with a shrug of her shoulders.

Captain Elisha smiled.
"Yes, ma'am," he said politely, joining in the conversation; "that's what the boy said about the cooky crumbs in the bed.

You don't care for the country, I take it, ma'am." "I do _not_!" "So?
Well, it's a mercy we don't think alike; even Heaven would be crowded if we did--hey?
You didn't come from the country, either ?" turning to Miss Sherborne.
The young lady would have liked to answer with an uncompromising negative.