Have you ever been in a house where there are a couple courting? It is most trying. You think you will go and sit in the drawing-room, and you march off there.
As you open the door, you hear a noise as if somebody had suddenly recollected something, and, when you get in, Emily is over by the window, full of interest in the opposite side of the road, and your friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people‘s relatives.
„Oh!“ you say, pausing at the door, „I didn‘t know anybody was here“.
„Oh! didn‘t you?“ says Emily, coldly, in a tone which implies that she does not believe you.
You hang about for a bit, then you say:
„It‘s very dark. Why don‘t you light the gas?“
John Edward says, „Oh!“ he hadn‘t noticed it; and Emily says that papa does not like the gas lit in the afteroon.
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