After tea they all wandered round the studio in commentary of its contents.
"Maurice!" said Castleton, stopping before the wax model of Aphrodite. "You don't feed your pets regularly enough. This lady's outrageously thin."
"Isn't he shocking?" said Maudie. "What would you do with him?"
"He's a nut," said Madge.
"Isn't he?" said Elsie and Gladys in chorus. These two very seldom penetrated beyond the exclamatory interrogative.
"A nut, you think?" said Castleton. "A Brasilero of the old breed with waxed pistachios and cocoanut-matted locks?"
"Oh, dry up," said Maurice. "I want the girls to look at this dancing girl."
"No one couldn't stand in that pŏsīsh," said Jenny. "Could they, Lilli?"
"Not very easily," the latter agreed.
"Really?" asked Maurice, somewhat piqued.