"Chains?" repeated Letty, looking bored. "Do you know, Leechy?"
"Yes, I still remember that, though I confess that I have forgotten the greater part of what I heard."
"Then what do you ask me for, when you know I don't know? What did he say about chains?"
"He said that he'd take the city, if it were rivetted to heaven with chains of iron," said Miss Leech dramatically.
"What a goat."
"Oh, hush—don't say those horrible words. Where do you learn them? Not from me, certainly not from me," said Miss Leech, distressed. She had a profound horror of slang, and was bewildered by the way in which these weeds of rhetoric sprang up on all occasions in Letty's speech.
"Well, and was it?"
"Was it what, my dear?"
"Chained to heaven?"
"The city? Why, how can a city be chained to heaven, Letty?"