‘Was Miss Burnet confirmed? She is the dullest girl I ever knew, and she is older than I am. Was she confused?’
‘She was.’
‘Did you give Mary Wright a ticket?’
‘No.’
‘Then, of course, you did not give one to Ned Long. I thought you would never succeed in making him remember which is the ninth commandment.’
‘I did not refuse him.’
‘Indeed! did he improve in a portentous manner?’
‘Not particularly.’
‘Well, you must have been more merciful than I expected.’
‘Indeed!’