"Send John to ask," suggested the husband.
"He would be sure to make a blunder about it. If you'd go yourself you'd learn the truth in a minute. Have a cab,--just go into the hall and you'll soon know how it all is;--I'd do it in a minute if I were you." Sir Damask was the most good-natured man in the world, but he did not like the job. "What can be the objection?" asked his wife.
"Go to a man's house and find out whether a man's guests are come before you go yourself! I don't just see it, Ju."

"Send John to ask," suggested the husband.
"If you'd go yourself you'd learn the truth in a minute. Take a cab."
Sir Damask did not like the job. "Go to a man's house and find out whether a man's guests are come! I just don't see it, Ju."
