"Yes, indeed! but words are so different spoken and written. We have been half over Europe. I wish you could have been along! Sandie, we went to Baden-Baden."
"What for?"
"What for! Why, to see it. And we saw the gaming."
"How did you like it?"
"It is fascinating. I never saw such a scene in my life; the people's faces; and then the mad eagerness with which they went at it; old men and young men, and women. Oh, it was astonishing to see the women!"
"What was the effect upon you?"
"I don't know; astonishment."
"How did Mrs. Thayer like it?"
"Do you know, I think she half wanted to try her hand? I was so amazed at mother! I told her she must not."
"You observe, Miss Copley, Miss Thayer knows the use of one of my words."