The owner of this expanse addressed his answer to me. "Perhaps it isn't out of place to mention—because we ought to be quite business-like, oughtn't we?—that when I married her she was known as the Beautiful Statue."
"Oh dear!" said Mrs. Monarch ruefully.
"Of course I should want a certain amount of expression," I rejoined.
"Of course!"—and I had never heard such unanimity.
"And then I suppose you know that you'll get awfully tired."
"Oh we never get tired!" they eagerly cried.
"Have you had any kind of practice?"
They hesitated—they looked at each other. "We've been photographed—immensely," said Mrs. Monarch.
"She means the fellows have asked us themselves," added the Major.
"I see—because you're so good-looking."