“Only her brother.”
“Is he poetical too?”
“Far from it. He won’t take much part in the conversation. Such remarks as he may venture to make will be prosaic enough.”
“I see by the letters R. S. V. P., which she puts at the bottom, that she expects a reply.”
“I am not much used to social etiquette. I am ashamed to say I didn’t know what the letters meant.”
“They stand for Répondez, s’il vous plaît--Answer, if you please.”
“I will remember that the next time a fashionable young lady writes to me.”
“I suppose you have not answered the invitation then?”
“No; I did not understand the letters, and thought it would do well enough to answer verbally when we met to-morrow morning at the breakfast table.”
“Will you allow me to draft the answer, Mr. Barclay?”