“Oh yes, thank you.”
“Let me show you—”
“I’ll leave Alfred to you,” said Bill Patch earnestly, “and if you can get him to say height and not heighth in the last scene, it’ll make all the difference.”
“I’ll try, but you know—Oh, General Kendal, thank you very much—yes, I do quite see. Only I think Lady Flower is in a hurry—”
“Are you looking for Alfred?” said Sallie, dashing past. “He’s trying on his beard in the dining room. Cousin Claire is looking everywhere for those drawing-room vases.”
“I know. Thank you so much, Sallie.”
“This fellow is the heaviest, I should say—put him in the middle. Then these little light bits of glass—”
“Oh thank you, thank you!”
“Wait a minute—that isn’t quite right yet. It always saves time in the long run,” said the General impressively, “to do things in the right way.”
“Yes, indeed. Shall I take it now? I know Lady Flower is in a hurry.”