Why should we not ask her ?" "My dear girl, there is no answer to such a question as that." "No!" She scribbles Mrs.Bethune's name on her list, and then, "You particularly _wish_ her to be asked ?" "Not particularly.

Certainly not at all if you object to it." "Object! Why should I object?
She is amusing--she will keep us all alive; she will help you to entertain your people." "I should hope you, Tita, would help me to do that." "Oh, I have not the air--the manner! I shall feel like a guest myself," says Tita.

She has sprung to her feet, and is now blowing a little feather she had found upon her frock up into the air.

It eludes her, however; she follows it round the small table, but all in vain--it sinks to the ground.

"What a _beast_ of a feather!" says she.
"I don't like you to say that," says Rylton.