"You did not look pleased at what Shirley was saying at dinner."
"Didn't I? My face must be very expressive," replied Margaret.
"It always was. It has not lost the trick of being eloquent."
"I did not like," said Margaret, hastily, "his way of advocating what he knew to be wrong--so glaringly wrong--even in jest."
"But it was very clever. How every word told! Did you remember the happy epithets?"
"Yes."

'You did not look pleased at what Shirley was saying at dinner.'
'Didn't I? My face must be very expressive,' replied Margaret.
'It always was.'
'I did not like,' said Margaret, hastily, 'his way of advocating what he knew to be wrong, even in jest.'
'But it was very clever. Do you remember the happy epithets?'
'Yes.'
