"That this is a very handsome proposition."
"Will you come?"
"Ah, that's another matter."
"But do."
"What for?"
"She's awfully nice—she's Harry's cousin—and all the older girls and boys will be there. You'll like it. I should think there'd be hardly anybody else as young as I am."
"Won't you feel your inferiority?"
"I think it's very nice of Jessie Hornsey to ask me."
He could see she had been proud of the distinction.
"Well, you go and tell them I—I've got rheumatism, and have to sit in an arm-chair."