'Why you know! Have you sent out any cards?'
'Have you sent out any cards, Hazel?'
'Things must be sent in before they can be sent out,' said the young lady, who having dismissed Dingee had come herself for Dr. Maryland's cup.
'Ambiguous'said Dane turning to Mrs. Coles; 'but I take the sense of it to be, that no cards were sent. That is not unprecedented.'
'For people situated just as you are, my dear, it is. Now tell me don't you want all these peopleI mean, everybody in generalto visit you?'
'Ambiguous again,' said Dane smiling at last a little. 'Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we do!'
'Then why not pay them the customary compliment of telling them so?'
'But suppose, on the other hand, that we do not?'
'Why you certainly know,' replied Mrs. Coles with some asperity, 'whether you want them. Do you? or don't you?'
'I think I might say,' answered Dane demurely, 'we do,and we do not.'