"Do you find the dog-days try you very much, Mrs.Bertram ?" "I don't feel the heat particularly," said Mrs.Bertram.She was anxious to assume a friendly tone, but was painfully conscious that her voice was icy.
"Well, that's lucky for you," remarked the visitor.

"I flush up a good deal.

Beatrice never does.

She takes after her father; he was wonderfully cool, poor man.

Have you got a newspaper of any sort about, that you'd lend me, Mrs.Bertram ?" "Oh, certainly," answered Mrs.Bertram, in some astonishment.