"You don't mean the Bishop?"
Spotts nodded.
"But he's such a dear funny old thing!" she cried.
"What's that got to do with it?"
"Why, he might be my grandfather."
"He's as frisky as a two-year-old," remarked the actor.
"And finally," continued Violet, not noticing the interruption, "his old cat of a sister wouldn't let him."
"Worms have turned, and straws have broken camels' backs before now," persisted Spotts.
"Don't you call me names, sir! Worms and straws, indeed! What next, I should like to know!"
"If you don't take care, you'll be called his Lordship's 'leopard.'"