“Oh, yes, do prolong it! So ripping for Blanche and me to have Odette to go about with! Of course, we never see Billy and Nancy here!”
“Don’t believe her, Odette!” he was laughing quite naturally.
“—can’t call your shore your own, this year! You don’t know what it is to have an engaged couple in the place!”
“No? It is not agreeable?” The pretty French girl turned to smile at him again. “You do not encourage me to come, so!”
“I’m writing a book about it——”
“Theo dear, finish your tea and don’t talk so much!”
“‘The Complete Gooseberry’ it’s called, if you know what that means.”
“Ah! Place where you find the little babies! Yes?”
“No! not place! People! Unengaged ones like us and you and everybody but Them.”
“—Enchanted, madame!”