“So so!”
“Were Lady Shropshire and Lady Silverlake there?”
“Oh, no!—the husbands are doing Paris en garçon.”
“How very horrid!” she decides. “You wouldn’t care to go about en garçon, would you, my own?”
“Certainly not,” he answers fervently.
But he has made up his mind to go out en garçon all the same.
“And how’s baby?” he inquires unctuously, in the hope of turning the subject.
“He’s very well. I am sure he has grown half-an-inch in the last few days, and I really think he tried to say ‘pa—pa’ this morning, Delaval!”
“Did he really! Dear little chap!”
“Yes! and Madame Le Blanc tells me that she has been a monthly-nurse for thirty years, and that its the first time she has ever heard a child of two months-and-a-half pronounce so plainly!”