“Mamma made me.”

“Ah, now you’re trying to take me down.”

“I wonder you can look any one in the face——”

“I always enjoy looking you in the face.”

“After the things you’ve said about poor Neaera!”

“Neaera?”

“Why shouldn’t I call her Neaera?”

“Oh, no reason at all. It may even be her name.”

“A woman who backbites is bad, but a man——”

“Is the deuce?” said George inquiringly.