“You can’t do that, John?”

“No, my dear, it’s quite out of the question. Not to be thought of.”

“Am I to go alone, John?”

“No, my dear, you will go with Mr. Lightwood.”

“Don’t you think it’s time we went down to Mr. Lightwood, John dear?” Bella insinuated.

“My darling, it’s almost time you went, but I must ask you to excuse me to him altogether.”

“You never mean, John dear, that you are not going to see him? Why, he knows you have come home. I told him so.”