"It is entirely too hot."
"But the carriage is ready."
"They can take the horses out, then, I wouldn't move for a kingdom."
"But you will have to. You know perfectly well that it is absolutely necessary we should go out together to-day, particularly as you did not go out earlier, as you ought to have done."
"I really hadn't the courage to get up."
"You will at least have to summon up courage to dress yourself, and at once."
"Don't insist, my dear. It is not of the slightest use."
"You must be jesting."
"Nothing of the sort."
"But the purchases we have to make cannot be put off any longer. My niece's corbeille must be completed. It would have been a week ago, but for your indolence."