The Duchess became serious. She arrived at the fairy's purpose, and believed it to be her own.
"Are you a democrat, Mrs. Moss?" she asked, and put her lorgnette to her eyes in order to see, as well as to hear, the answer.
Every nerve and atom of the vain and selfish lady quivered in protest at such a question.
"No, madam, that I am not," was the decided answer.
"Dear, dear!" sighed the Duchess.
"I left all pretty fancies over yonder. Mr. Barnett Q. Moss and I are emphatically not anything so silly!"
"You left them over yonder?"
"Yes, we did!"
"In the United States?"
"In the U-nited States of America!"