If you didn't squint--" "Squint!" "What do you call that affection of your eyes ?" "That," she said, calmly eating her dessert, "was a glance of scorn--burning, bitter scorn!" "I maintain it was a squint," declared Arthur.
"That isn't her only expression," announced Uncle John, who loved these little exchanges of good-humored banter.

"On Monday I will show you Patsy as a terror-stricken damsel in distress." "Also Beth, still more distressful," added Patsy; and then they told Louise and Arthur about the picture.
"Fine!" he cried.

"I'm deeply gratified that my own relatives--" "By marriage." "I am gratified that my secondhand cousins have been so highly honored.
I'd rather see a good moving picture than the best play ever produced." "You'll see a good one this time," asserted Patsy, "for we are the stars." "I think that unscrupulous Mr.Werner deserves a reprimand," said Louise.
"Oh, he apologized," explained Beth.

"But I'm sure he'd take the same liberty again if he had the chance." "He admits that his love of art destroys his sense of propriety," said Patsy.
As they rose from the table Arthur deliberately turned to view the party in the other corner, and then to the amazement of his friends he coolly walked over and shook the elder lady's hand with evident pleasure.

Next moment he was being introduced to the two girls.