UNINTELLIGENT ANTICIPATION.
"My dear," I said, "you are always proposing things, and then, when they are carried nem. con., you argue against your own proposal."
"It's unfair to use Greek to me."
"'Nem. con.,'" I said, "is rich old Castilian and, put simply, means that nobody—I am nobody—objects."
"But we can't afford a new tea-set."
"Then why did you ask so many to tea at once?"
"I didn't think," said Alison. "They are coming to make pyjamas for our soldiers in the trenches, and I simply thought that the more people came the more pyjamas there would be."
"How many cups have we?"