Most of my friends are utter Socialists, and believe in bridging as far as possible the gulf between one class and another, so you needn't feel shy or awkward." The splashing of the ferry-boat was once more heard, and then the shop quaked a little as a heavy foot alighted on the landing-stage.

The ferryman was heard saying: "I don't know any party of that name, but I believe the young woman at the shop can help you." Lady Arabel Higgins entered the shop.
"What, Meta, you here?
And Sarah Brown?
What a too dretfully funny coincidence.

Well, Angela dear, I made a note of your address yesterday, and then lost the note--too dretfully like me.

So I rang up the Mayor, and he said he also had made a note, and he would come and show me the way.

But I didn't wait for him.