“Magnificently; you overawed even me. So now to business, as the gentlemen say. Which of us two takes him?”
“Takes whom?” inquired Josephine, opening her lovely eyes.
“Edouard,” murmured Rose, lowering hers.
Josephine glared on the lovely minx with wonder and comical horror.
“Oh! you shall have him,” said Rose, “if you like. You are the eldest, you know.”
“Fie!”
“Do now; TO OBLIGE ME.”
“For shame! Rose. Is this you? talking like that!”
“Oh! there’s no compulsion, dear; I never force young ladies’ inclinations. So you decline him?”
“Of course I decline him.”