It would be a very good thing." "A very good thing, but none of my business ?"--the Duchess's vivacity was not unamiable.
It was on this circumstance that her companion for an instant perhaps meditated.

"It's probably not in my interest to say that.

I should give you too easy a retort.

It would strike any one as quite as much your business as mine." "Well, it ought to be somebody's, you know.

One would suppose it to be her mother's--her father's; but in this country the parents are even more emancipated than the children.