"Certainly not!"
"I thought all Irish girls were called Biddy; are you sure you're not?"
"My name is Honor Fitzgerald."
"Really! I'm astonished it isn't Mulligan, or O'Grady."
The Hammond-Smiths giggled, and poked Effie and Blanche Lawson.
"Isn't Flossie funny?" they whispered delightedly.
"I think she's very rude," observed Dorothy Arkwright. "I call that an extremely cheap form of wit."
"Irish names are often rather peculiar," drawled Claudia Hammond-Smith.
"They're quite as good as English ones, and sometimes a great deal more ancient and aristocratic," returned Honor.
"One for Claudia, and for Flossie Taylor too!" said Dorothy to Chatty Burns.