“For heaven’s sake, give me time to swallow!”
“Oh! how long it takes you to do anything! Do put on the children’s hats!”
“What! are you going to take them to the mayor’s office?”
“Certainly.”
“That’s all folly; it won’t amuse them, and they’ll crowd the carriage; it’s much better not to take them till we go to the church.”
“But I insist on their going now! Do you suppose that I dressed them up just to leave them at home?”
“But I tell you we can come back and get them in a little while.”
“And I tell you that I propose to take them now.”
“There won’t be any room for them.”
“You can hold them on your knees.”