"I'm going to catch 'em together in this room to-night."
"Gracious!"
"And you've got to stand shoulder to shoulder with me, behind that screen. At the right moment, when least expected, we'll pop out."
"And what will you say?"
"Ho! What will I say? Between now and then, my dear, I shall think over what I'm going to say. Words won't fail me. I shall down the pair of them, rub their noses in their insolence and folly."
"Oh, dear!" exclaimed Susan.
CHAPTER XIX
THINGS AND PERSONS
I
That night, as usual, the Quinneys retired to bed at half-past ten. At eleven, the door of Joe's bedroom opened noiselessly, and the little man's head, crowned with a ridiculous smoking-cap appeared. His body followed arrayed in a flowered silk dressing-gown. Posy's room was upstairs.