But she quickly recovered.
"I only know what I've read, cousin, about any kind of English ladies.
But that's enough, I'm sure.

Stuck-up things!" And again she observed, from Clara's pained expression, that she had made another mistake.
If she showed a liking for stout at lunch, she manifested a positive passion for champagne at dinner.
"I do like the English custom," she said, "of having two dinners in the day." "Ladies in America, I suppose," said Clara, "dine in the middle of the day ?" "Always." "But I have visited many families in New York and Boston who dined late," said Arnold.
"Dare say," she replied carelessly.

"I'm going to have some more of that curry stuff, please.

And don't ask any more questions, anybody, till I've worried through with it.

I'm a wolf at curry." "She likes England, Arnold," said Clara, covering up this remark, so to speak.