"Some people have no shame."

"Do try and remember you're ladies," put in Miss Allen, in an effort
to still the storm.

"Well, she shouldn't say I ought to wash my hands before getting
into bed," remarked Miss Impett.

"I didn't say you should," said Miss Potter.

"What did you say?"

"What I said was that anyone with any pretension to the name of lady
would wash her hands before getting into bed," corrected Miss
Potter.

"I know you don't think me a lady," broke out Miss Impett. "But ma
was quite a lady till she started to let her lodgings in single
rooms."

"Don't say any more and let's all go to sleep," urged pacific Miss
Allen, who was all the time keeping an anxious eye on her friend
Miss Potter.

Miss Impett, perhaps fired by her family reminiscence, was not so
easily mollified.

"Of course, if certain people, who're nobodies, try to be'ave as
somebodies, one naturally wants to know where they've learned their