"That is as the critics shall decide."
"Is it true that your lordship has been converted to Catholicism?"
"Then how does your lordship account for the rumor?"
"I have an indirect connection with a sort of new nunnery, which it is proposed to found—the Old Maids' Club."
"Oh, yes, the one that Clorinda Bell is going to join."
"Nonsense! who told you she was going to join?"
The Moon-man winced perceptibly at the question, as he replied indignantly: "Herself!"
"Thank you. That's what I wanted to know. You may contradict it on the authority of the president. She only said so to get an advertisement."
"Then why give her two by contradicting it?"