There is no doubt that these latter have by far the more comfortable journey; but whether they are equally contented when they have reached that journey's end, none of them have as yet returned to tell us.
"If somebody must go to Australia after that tiresome young man, why need it be you ?" Elisabeth persisted.

"Can't you send somebody else in your place ?" "I am afraid I couldn't trust anybody else to sift the matter as thoroughly as I should.

I really must go, Betty.

Please don't make it too hard for me." "Do you mean you will still go, even though I beg you not ?" "I am afraid I must." Elisabeth rose from her seat and drew herself up to her full height, as became a dethroned and offended queen.

"Then that is the end of the matter as far as I am concerned, and it is a waste of time to discuss it further; but I must confess that there is nothing in the world I hate so much as a prig," she said, as she swept out of the room.
It was her final shot, and it told.