"What 'such an article'?"
"Subject to damage; in which case the damage would be very great."
"I am not subject to damage. I never get cold or anything. Mr. Southwode, won't you take me, some night, to see the Minstrels?"
"They are not much to see."
"But to hear, they are. Won't you, Mr. Southwode? I am crazy to hear them, and mamma won't take me; and papa never goes anywhere but to his office and to court; won't you, Mr. Southwode?"
"Perhaps; if Mrs. Busby will honour me so much."
"O mamma will trust you, I know. Then the first clear evening, Mr.
Southwode? the first that you are at leisure?"
Without answering her he turned to Mrs. Busby.
"How is Rotha?"
"Very well!" the lady answered smoothly.