“And very inquisitive ones, too,” added Victoriano.
“Refer them to me,” Don Mariano said; “I'll give them quite a satisfactory answer.”
“Meantime, are we not to visit them?” Victoriano asked.
“Visit whom?” Carlota asked.
“The Darrells, of course,” Victoriano answered.
“I thought you meant the Holmans, as we spoke of them last.”
“Bother, with your grammar, you had better keep school,” Victoriano said.
“You had better go to one,” Carlota retorted.
“I have enough of it here. The question now is the visit to the Darrells. Is this family to visit them or not?”
“Why, you are to do so to-morrow, dead or alive,” Rosario said.