"Why, father, what has started you all of a sudden?"
"That's my business."
"Well, we cannot get ready, no way in the world."
"Pshaw! I could get a ship ready before ten o'clock."
"But we cannot get new hats."
"Plenty of time. Start right out."
"To-night? Buy a hat in the evening, who ever heard of such a thing? What would Mrs. Grundy say?"
"Ask her, she is going with us; or rather, we are going with them. Grundy is in shoal water, and wants to get out of sight a few days; and I want he should, for I am on his paper heavy."
"Oh, it is absolutely impossible for us to go to our milliner to-night."
"Go in the morning, then. Time enough."