He changed the subject and said boldly: "Mrs.Baxter is coming to-morrow." Adelaide's eyes faintly flashed.
"Oh, wouldn't you know it!" she murmured.

"Just at the most inconvenient time--inconvenient for me, I mean.

Really, lovers are the only people you can depend on.

I wish I had a lover." "Adelaide," said her father with some sternness, "even in fun you should not say such a thing.

If Mathilde heard you--" "Mathilde is the person who made me see it.