'But that is nonsense, Dane.'
'Is it?'
'You ought to want them.'
'WellI have told you; we do.'
'Then are you going, when a suitable time comes, are you going to invite all these neglected people and give them a good Reception? you and Hazel?'
'We will give them a good reception if they come,' said Dane with provoking want of enthusiasm.
'O I never can get anything out of you!' said the lady discomfited. 'I might have known it. Papa, do you think it is well to set all the institutions of society at defiance?'
'Why Prue,' said Dr. Maryland somewhat astonished, 'you speak as if Society were monarch of the realm. I believe we live in a republic.'
'What do you mean by Society?' asked Primrose.
'Why!You know.'