This remark, that might have presumably annoyed another girl, seems to fill Miss Kavanagh with mirth.
"Am I so bad as that?" cries she, gaily. "Why I shall make amends then. I shall change my evil ways. As a beginning, see here. If Barbara says go to the Court, go I will. Now, stern moralist! where are you?"
"In the seventh heaven," says he, promptly. "Be it a Fool's Paradise or otherwise, I shall take up my abode there for the present. And now you will go and ask Mrs. Monkton?"
"In what a hurry to get rid of me!" says this coquette of all coquettes. "Well, good-bye then——"
"Oh no, don't go."
"To the Court? Was ever man so unreasonable? In one breath 'do' and 'don't'!"
"Was ever woman so tormenting?"
"Tormenting? No, so discerning if you will, or else so——"
"Adorable! You can't find fault with that at all events."
"And therefore my mission is at an end! Good-bye, again."