QUITE RIDICULOUS!
"DO YOU BELIEVE IN TABLE-TALKING, MATILDA, THAT THERE'S SUCH A FUSS ABOUT?"
"OH, DEAR NO! WHY, THE OTHER EVENING A TABLE WAS ASKED HOW OLD I WAS, AND IT RAPPED OUT FORTY! WHEN I'M NOT THREE-AND-TWENTY TILL NEXT MARCH!"
MAY AND DECEMBER.
A VAIN SHADOW.
"MY LOVE! DO YOU THINK THOSE FELLOWS ARE FOLLOWING US?"