I want you to take me out to supper." He looked at her in amazement.

She stamped her foot.
"Don't stand there hesitating!" she ordered.

"Do as I say! You don't expect I am going to help you to buy your wretched property if you refuse me the simplest of favors?
Hurry, I say! Hurry!" "I am really very sorry," Tavernake interposed, "but I do not possess a dress suit.

I would go, with pleasure, but I haven't got such a thing." She looked at him for a moment incredulously.

Then she broke into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.