She's got a downer on you, and so has--" "Do you hear, sir ?" shouted the father.
Somehow this genial interruption robbed Mr Ratman of his ideas, and stopped the flow of his discourse, much to the relief of the remainder of the party.
"Well ?" said Mr Armstrong, when he and his ward met afterwards in the room of the latter, "how do you like our new visitor ?" "So badly that I am thankful for once that Rosalind has gone." Mr Armstrong looked hard at his ward for a moment.

Then he twitched his glass uncomfortably, and replied in an absent sort of way-- "Quite so--quite so.".