Leonetta laughed. "Yes, a very strange world," she exclaimed.
Sir Joseph laughed too at what he conceived to be a most whimsical suggestion.
"And did you 'ave nice teachers?" he pursued.
"Miss Tomlinson, the history mistress was my favourite," replied the girl.
Denis remarked that he did not know they taught history at a school of Domesticity.
"Yes, you see," Leonetta replied, "the history of the subject. Cookery since the dawn of civilisation, or something desperate like that."
"Was she nice?" Sir Joseph enquired.
"I thought so," answered the girl, "though she wasn't beautiful. You know, she had that sort of very long chin that you feel you ought to shake hands with."
Sir Joseph laughed and made all kinds of grimaces at Mrs. Delarayne, intended to convey that Leonetta was indeed a chip of the old block.
"That's unkind," said Miss Mallowcoid.