"I shall try to, my dear."
"And to-morrow she and I will take up our rôle of town mouse and country mouse."
"Poor Kitty!"
"I shall like it. She likes me already, and I have an odd fancy to make her like me better."
"You amazing Kitty! But are you going to carry out those extraordinary expeditions from east to west unchaperoned?"
"I shouldn't mind at all. We aren't so particular nowadays, you know. However, I daresay Captain Leslie would go with us with joy. He admires the little Pam."
"And he is Anthony's friend."
"Yes, of course, one doesn't mind bothering him any more than one would Anthony."
When Lady Kitty announced at dinner that she was going to take Pamela a round of sight-seeing, Pamela's weary face brightened.
"You would like it better than meeting a lot of dull people who are desperately uninteresting to you."