"But——"
"Stop!" said I firmly. "It is a subject too complicated to discuss."
"Oh, pooh!" said Dulcima; "everybody discusses everything in Oyster Bay. And besides I want to know——"
"About the pig!" broke in Alida.
"And that man to whom you gave the pig——"
"Alida," said I, with misleading mildness, "how would you like to go to Paris?"
"Oh! papa——"
"And you, Dulcima?"
"Darling papa!"