"Was it very funny, chick?"
"Oh, wasn't it! But didn't mamma look lovely?... I've seen it twice before, you know." This last is by way of apology for giving the conversation a wrench. But the Major didn't want
to talk over the wedding—seemed to prefer "Charley's Aunt."
"He dresses up like his aunt, doesn't he?"
"Oh yes—it's glorious fun! But do say you thought mamma looked lovely."
"Of course she did. She always does. But had the others seen 'Charley's Aunt' before?"
"Tishy and her Bradshaw? Oh yes—at least, I suppose so."
"And Dr. Vereker?"
"Oh, of course he had—twice at least. The times we saw it, mother and I. He went too.... We-e-e-ell, there's nothing in that!" (We can only hope again our spelling conveys the way the word well was prolonged.)
"Nothing at all. Why should there be? What a nice fellow Vereker is!"