'She shall sit! And I'll be one of the wicked ones, whenever you please.'
'Then you must be a good one too.'
'Oh! I don't promise that. It is much flatter. Let me be the one who is taking off Urania Ethel's gestures. I declare you are too clever; the constellation you've turned up on the globe is vulpecula et anser.'
'No, you fancied that, Gertrude.'
'No such thing! See the stars really make a little W just like it in the sky, and observe the moral. Instead of a he-fox running off with the goose, the vixen will thus run away with the gander.'
Cherry had not laughed so much for weeks, Lance not for a year. Stella's shoulders shook over her German exercise, and her voice suggested: 'It ought to have been in the Southern Hemisphere, for the world turned topsy-turvy.'
'The Southern Hemisphere is stupid, where it got out of sight of the dear old funny folks that named the stars. What shall we have in the world set right?'
'Andromeda on the rock,' said Stella, 'and Perseus coming to let her out!'
'There's Perseus then coming down the walk,' said Gertrude.
'I hope that's me!' said Lance.