"FULVIE—"
"Anice, my dear, allow me to remark that the way to get work done is not to sit in a brown study for exactly half-an-hour."
"Half-an-hour!"
"A metaphorical one, of course. How many stitches have you put into that leaf since dinner?"
"I don't know—but—I can't imagine why Nigel didn't settle to come home to-night."
"No train, he says."
"But there is a train."
"He thought there was not."
"Daisy found one directly she looked—just at the right time."
"Daisy's a clever young woman. Daisy isn't Nigel, however."