"'Not from you, lady, not from you!' they said. The woman put her hands behind her back."
"That was odd," said Elliot.
"Yes. And as we drove off she looked after them and said the strangest things. 'Could any one be happier, do you think?' she said, and afterward: 'Life seems so unwrinkled, somehow, when one sees it lived that way!'"
"And what did you say to that?" asked her brother.
"Why, of course, there was nothing to say. I only said that I couldn't conceive how any educated woman could be happy without a bath-tub."
He chuckled.
"Of course you did," he murmured.
"That's what mamma said," she sighed.
"What?"
"Why, she looked at me so queerly and said, 'Of course you would say that, Mina!'"