"The violin is always nice," primly replied Miss Muriel, "but I don't care for Scotch airs—they're so common. We like high-class music."
"Perhaps you play yourself?" Mr. Stevenson suggested.
"Oh no," said Miss Muriel in a surprised tone.
"Do you care for reading?" he asked her sister.
"Oh, I like it well enough, but it's an awful waste of time."
"Are you so very busy, then?"
"Well, what with calling, and going into town, and the evenings so taken up with dances and bridge parties, it's quite a rush."
"It must be," said Mr. Stevenson.
"And besides," said Miss Gertrude, "we do quite a lot of fency work."
"But still, Gertrude," her sister reminded her, "we nearly always read on Sunday afternoons."