“You're as big a tease as ever,” and Quincy drew his favourite sister towards him. “Don't plague Flossie any more. Think of your possible fate. You may marry a Jap.”
“I know a lovely little Jap, now. His name is Hioshato Konuka. Oh, Alice, won't you stay all night? When are you going on your vacation, Quincy?”
“In about ten days, if the legislature is prorogued by that time.”
“Where are you going?” asked his mother.
“Alice wishes to go to Fernborough for a week or two, and then we shall go to Nantucket.”
“Will the Earl and Sir Stuart pay us a visit?” was the next question.
“I invited them in your name, mother, but Linda and Aunt Ella were anxious to get back to their yacht at Nantucket. They will sail from there to New York and take the steamer home next week.”
“Is the Countess of Sussex' sister-in-law, the Lady Elfrida, married yet?” asked Florence.
“I understand she is engaged,” Quincy replied.
Maude was incorrigible. “Reggie told me she was practising deep breathing, owing to the length of the Episcopal marriage service.”