"I couldn't!" "No, don't!" said Dinah.

"It isn't, fair to bother anyone else on my account! I'm dreadfully sorry to have to refuse.

But--in any case--I ought not to come." "What of that ?" said Eustace lightly.

"Do you always do what you ought?
What a dull programme!" Dinah flushed.

"Dull but respectable," she said, with a touch of spirit.
He laughed.