Do you not think the same ?" And she looked at me as anxiously as though the making of coffee to please me were the chief aim of life.
"Was Sir John at home ?" she asked, after a few minutes.
Then I had to describe my day, to give her a history of the coming fair, in which she affected great interest.
"I should like to go very much," she said.

"I have read in fashionable novels of fancy fairs, but I have never seen one.

Are you going, Sir Edgar ?" "Lady Thesiger has asked my assistance, and I have promised it.

We shall make up a party.

If you wish to go, Coralie, you shall." She thanked me, and when I had finished my coffee, rang the bell and ordered it to be cleared away.
"I am going to sing to you," she said.