How were you rude to him?
I should like to have a story of your rudeness, merely to hold up against you for a future emergency." "I pointed to the door in the attitude of the heroine of one of the old plays, and when he didn't leave at once, I left the room." "You mean to say that you left him standing in the middle of the room while you went away ?" "I told you that I was rude." "Rude, yes; but it's one thing to omit to leave cards upon a hostess, and quite another to stare her in the face when she bows to you in the street.

It's one thing to omit sending a man a piece of your bridescake, and quite another to knock off his hat in the street.

Rude, oh, my dear Phyllis!" "If you knew what he said about--about someone whom I love--if you knew how angry I was, you would not say that I acted so atrociously, after all." "Oh! Did he say something more about Ruth ?" "He said too much--far too much; I cannot tell you.

If any other man said so much I would treat him in the same way.

You must not ask me anything further, please." "Rude and unrepentant, shocking and not ashamed.