“But, ma’am, he shall bring you a Latin oration upon this subject, and you must hear it!”
“O, ’tis all the same! I shan’t not understand it, so I won’t not hear it.”
“But you must, ma’am. If I write it, I shan’t let you off so:—you must hear it!”
“No, I won’t!—Miss Berner might,—give it her.”
“Does Miss Burney know Latin?” cried Mr. G. Villiers.
“Not one word,” quoth I.
“I believe that,” cried she “but she might hear it the same!”