"I'm sure I can't say," said Miss Baker.
"It's given up to them that they've got rid of it altogether," said Mr Rubb.
"Who have got rid of what?" asked Miss Todd, who saw that her friend was rather dismayed by the tenor of Mr Rubb's conversation.
"The French have got rid of decorum," said Mr Rubb.
"Altogether, I believe," said Miss Todd.
"Of course they have. It's given up to them that they have. They're the people that know how to live!"
"You'd better go and live among them, if that's your way of thinking," said Miss Todd.
"I would at once, only for the business," said Mr Rubb. "If there's anything I hate, it's decorum. How pleasant it was for me to be asked in to take tea here in this social way!"
"But I hope decorum would not have forbidden that," said Miss Todd.
"I rather think it would though, in London."