'Don't take her statements, Hazel,' said Dane. 'She does not know much about the vegetable creation, if she does about me.'
'But answer me, if you can.'
'Human nature also needs cultivation, I was going to add. A servant must make himself the best servant he can. A man is bound to give himself and his family the utmost of every kind of cultivation that is possible to him without neglecting higher ends.'
'H'm. And is Mrs. Rollo's travelling clock Which class does that come under?'
'Pleasure.'
'O you hold pleasure lawful then?'
'Certainly. Within the above limits.'
'Prue, Prue,' said Prim uneasily. 'Stop. You have gone far enough; and too far.'
'I was seeking knowledge, Prim; and that, Dane says, is commendable. May I ask one other question, Dane? What head do these mean little picture frames come under?'
'You do not like them?' said Dane, surveying the one in hand with its enclosed photograph of Dannecker's Ariadne.