'That's your line. I was thinkinghow would you define "a noise"?'
'Extraneous sounds come pretty near it, with me,' said Dr. Arthur.
'But you wouldn't call music "a noise," ' said Primrose.
'Wouldn't I!When Miss Powder has wandered off alone to the
Sands of Dee and doesn't want to be interrupted!'
'But what you would call a noise, isn't music, Arthur. Now Hazel, I wish you would just sing one of your little songs and confound him!' Primrose spoke entreatingly.
'I should be more happy to be confoundedin that waythan I can tell,' said the doctor.
'Thank you,' Hazel answered laughing; 'my songs are quite too small to do that for anybody. And besides, as I once heard somebody say,"I was not asked first." '
'Your are asked to be the first,' said Rollo.
'I remember one night at Newport' Dr. Arthur began. Hazel interrupted him.
'You need not remember anything about Newport!'