"No, mama," replied Violet, "you ought to play that—it would suit you."
"I play? ... my dear child!"
"Do you not intend to take a part?"
"My dear Violet, how could you suppose such a thing?"
"I imagined," replied Violet, with exquisite naturalness, "that you were an accomplished actress."
"So I should have said, from the little I have the pleasure of knowing of Mrs. Vyner," observed Marmaduke.
The two arrows went home; but Mrs. Vyner's face was impassive.
"How imprudent Violet is!" said Blanche, in a whisper, to Cecil.
"Do you understand that?" said Rose to Julius.
"What?"