"Oh, it's much more entertaining to have one person in the house who's up to something. If they were all as stupid as the cook, how dull it would be. But I can tell you what's the matter with Angelina—she is going to give a recital."
"A recital?"
"Yes. It seems she has been taking elocution lessons ever since she had any money of her own to spend."
"Did Miss Bourne encourage this kind of thing?"
"Oh, no, she disapproved, but she just couldn't stop her. Brenda Weston told me all about it. Brenda thought there was no great harm in Angelina's amusing herself this way."
"But elocution lessons must cost so—"
"Yes, that's what Miss Bourne said, and she didn't want Angelina to go on the stage, as she threatened."
"Angelina on the stage!"
"Yes, mamma. She has even confided to me that she has been answering advertisements of companies that want soubrettes. Of course I told her it was dreadful, and she's promised to give up that idea for the present. But I have taken some tickets for her recital."
"My dear, I wish you hadn't encouraged her."