"And did you settle about Maude's staying with us?"
"No."
"Nor about her going to her ladyship's?"
"No."
"Why, what on earth was the use of your going to town? What have you settled?"
"That she's to stay with--me."
"With you?"
"With me."
"Why, you don't mean to say that you're going--that she's going----?"
"I do--exactly that."