"But how dare you do such a thing? It's most inhuman! Why, it's been snowing for the last hour."

"I expect there'll be a cottage or farmhouse somewhere if they walk a mile or two."

"But why on earth have you done it?"

The question came in a chorus of indignant bewilderment.

"THAT would be telling what our characters are meant to be," exclaimed Vera.

"Didn't I warn you?" exclaimed Sir Nicholas tragically to his wife.

"It's something to do with Spanish history; we don't mind giving you that clue," exclaimed Skatterly, helping himself happyly to salad, and then Bertie van Tahn broke forth into peals of joyous laughter.