"Yes, Pa-pah."
"Well, confound it, what did you go in for, then?"
An anxious silence was his answer. "You didn't all go in, did you?" he demanded in a melodious bellow.
"Oh, no, Pa-pah!"
"Did two of you go?"
"Oh-h, n-o, Pa-pah!"
"Well, which one did?"
The line of beauty wavered for a moment; then Sybilla stepped slowly to the front, three paces, and halted with downcast eyes.
"I told you not to, didn't I?" said her father, scowling the monocle out of his eye and reinserting it.
"Y-yes, Pa-pah."