"Well, really!" she exclaimed at length.

"I shall not discuss that point with you at present, but it has nothing to with the matter in hand.

Will you be pleased to go and finish your music-lesson ?" "No, ma'am; I have said I shall never be taught by him again; and I am not one to break my word," concluded Lulu, loftily.
"Very well, miss; we will see what my father has to say to that." She stepped to the door and summoned him.
He came, marching in with his most pompous air, and glancing frowningly around, inquired what was wanted.
A great hush had fallen on the room; there was not a whisper, not a movement; eyes and ears were intent upon seeing and hearing all that should pass.
Miss Diana, glancing from her father to Lulu, drew herself up haughtily and replied, "Miss Raymond refuses obedience to orders." "Indeed!" he said, his frown growing darker and expending itself entirely upon the culprit.

"How is that?
What were the orders, and what reason does she assign for refusing obedience ?" "The signor sent word that she had not finished her music-lesson, and that he desired her to return and do so.

I directed her to obey the summons, and she flatly refused; giving as her only reason that he was not a gentleman." "Not a gentleman!" repeated the professor in accents of astonishment and indignation--"not a gentleman! In making such an assertion, young miss, you insult not the signor merely, but myself also; since it was I who engaged him to give instruction in music to the pupils of this establishment.