"That's so nice, isn't it ?" Then she offered Mrs.Roughsedge cake, and looked at her askance with a hanging head.

"Have you heard--about the Vicar ?" Mrs.Roughsedge admitted it.
"I did lose my temper," said Diana, repentantly.

"But _really!_--papa used to tell me it was a sign of weakness to say violent things you couldn't prove.

Wasn't it Lord Shaftesbury that said some book he didn't like was 'vomited out of the jaws of hell'?
Well, the Vicar said things very like that.

He did indeed!" "Oh no, my dear, no!" cried Mrs.Roughsedge, disturbed by the quotation, even, of such a remark.