Having expended her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appeared proper to Miss Amelia to ask her friend to sing. "You would not have listened to me," she said to Mr. Osborne (though she knew she was telling a fib), "had you heard Rebecca first."

Having expended her little store of songs, Amelia asked her friend to sing. "You would not have listened to me," she said to Mr. Osborne, "had you heard Rebecca first."
