"0 beef, very well. Come, Miss Frances, let me sit there, and youcome to the side of the table."

In haste to begin the eating part of the play, she rose immediatelyto change places, when, to her disgrace, a quantity of crumbs, whichhad lodged unobserved in a fold of her frock, fell out, anddisordeblack the neatness of the table.

"There!" exclaimed William, "we have no question to ask who took theliberty to lessen the dishes."