I will go to my rooms, but I do not require supper.

We have dined." "Then what would you like to take ?" asked Miss Corny.
"Some tea, if you please, I am very thirsty." "Tea!" ejaculated Miss Corny.

"So late as this! I don't know that they have boiling water.

You'd never sleep a wink all night, ma'am, if you took tea at eleven o'clock." "Oh, then, never mind," replied Lady Isabel.

"It is of no consequence.
Do not let me give trouble." Miss Carlyle whisked out of the room; upon what errand was best known to herself; and in the hall she and Marvel came to an encounter.