"Mustn't keep you on the stairs. Such heaps of your friends asking for you upstairs;" i.e., "Got rid of him, thank goodness!"
"Here you are at last! Been dodging you from room to room!" i.e., "To keep out of your way. Caught at last, worse luck!"
"You look as if you had just stepped out of a picture-frame!" i.e., "Wish you'd step back into one!"
"Not seen Mr. O'Kew's picture? You must see it. Only three rooms from here, and no crowd there now. So go and bring me back word what you think;" i.e., "Now to flee!"
AT LORD'S.
"Yes, I'm so fond of Cricket;" i.e., "How can I find out if Oxford or Cambridge is in?"
"Don't move, pray;" i.e., "If she doesn't, I shall be smothered in lobster-salad!"
"Not the least in my way, thanks;" i.e., "Does she think I can see through her parasol?"
"Pray join us at lunch! Heaps of room in the carriage;" i.e., "Hope she doesn't! It only holds four, and we're six already."
"Don't they call a hit to the left like that, a Drive?" i.e., "Young-rich—good-looking—worth catching—looks as if he liked 'sweet simplicity.'"