"Where did you and your husband intend to pass last night?"
"At Exeter."
"Are you sure?"
"I ought to be. I bought the tickets."
"You bought the tickets! Is that customary in your country?"
"I am not here to discuss the customs of my country, Lady Melton. I bought the tickets because I chose to do so, and considered myself better fitted to arrange the trip than my husband."
"Really! I suppose that is the reason you selected the most roundabout way to reach Exeter. Your husband could have told you that you should have taken another railway, the Great Western."
"My husband," said Mrs. Scarsdale stiffly, "did not know our destination."
"What!"
"I say that my husband did not know our destination."