“I shan’t!” shrieked Dreda, and flamed a sudden violent red.
“She shan’t!” shrieked Maud, at one and the same moment, her fair, placid face flushing to the same crimson hue.
They faced each other like two infuriated turkey cocks—heads erect, feathers ruffled, bodies swaying to and fro with indignation.
“As if I should!”
“As if I’d let you!”
“Teach her!”
“Teach me!”
“The very idea!”
“I’m ’stonished you should talk such nonsense, Rowena!”
Rowena laughed softly. It was the first time she had unbent since the telling of the dread news. She put her head on one side and stared at Dreda’s furious face with an “I told you so!” expression which that young lady found infinitely exasperating.