Claude burst into mocking laughter.
"You'd need seven and seventy veils for that part, Mazie," he said.
When he subsided, the same languid, purring tones replied from the left.
"Say, Claude, you have got a head. But so has a pin."
"Naughty kitten, showing its claws in company!"
"Lothario!" cried Cornelia, from the right. "No quarreling before supper."
"Oh, I need a little excitement to give me an appetite," said Claude.
He got up, walked around the room several times and then stopped in front of the left door.
"I wish you'd hurry up, Mazie."
"Mary, I'm on my fourth step," purred her voice in reply.