I wish you could have seen how silly those men looked, when they discovered to whom they owed their lives.

I could have laughed at the spectacle if I had not been so angry." "It suits you to be angry, I think," broke in Miles.

"You ordered those two round just as if you had been a duchess, and they simply squirmed before you, like the worms that they are." "Silly boy, you have never seen a duchess, so you can't know how she would order people about.

Indeed she might be mild as milk, which I am not.

But I hate to feel as angry as I have been doing to-night, so I am going to creep in and have a look at Father.
That will make me feel better and more amiable, I hope." "Don't disturb him if he is at all sleepy.