While Cheese, going red also, administered to Jan sundry kicks under the table, as an intimation that he should have kept counsel.

"I--took--just a little drop, Mr.Jan," said she.

"What's the dose, if you please?
Is it one tea-spoonful or two ?" "It depends upon the age," said Jan, "if you mean taken inwardly.

For you it would be--I say, Cheese, what are you kicking at ?" Cheese began to stammer something about the leg of the table; but the subject was interrupted by the entrance of Sibylla.

Lionel wished them good-evening, and went out with her.