“I am afraid I am not of much use to you anywhere!” said Madame Münster. “And yet you know how I have offered to be.”
“Well,” observed Clifford, by way of response, “there comes the buggy.”
“Never mind the buggy. Do you know I am going away?”
“Do you mean now?”
“I mean in a few days. I leave this place.”
“You are going back to Europe?”
“To Europe, where you are to come and see me.”
“Oh, yes, I’ll come out there,” said Clifford.
“But before that,” Eugenia declared, “you must come and see me here.”
“Well, I shall keep clear of that back room!” rejoined her simple young kinsman.