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There was
something, I know, for when I said I was coming home sooner than I had
at first intended, she didn't try to make me stay."
"Perhaps," said Mrs. Ogden, "she was disappointed in something, and so
vented her feeling on you."
"But she wasn't cross--except when I asked her what the matter was. She
was just--just snippy."
"Was Mr. Stirling there?"
"Yes. And a lot of other people. I don't think anybody had a good time,
unless it was Cousin Lispenard. And he wasn't a bit nice. He had some
joke to himself, and kept making remarks that nobody could understand,
and chuckling over them. I told him once that he was rude, but he said
that 'when people went to a play they should laugh at the right points.'
That's the nice thing about Mr. Stirling. You know that what he says is
the real truth."
"Lispenard's always trying to be clever."
"Yes. What do you suppose he said to me as I came away!"
"What?"
"He shook my hand, laughing, and said, 'Exit villain. It is to be a
comedy, not a tragedy.


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