the thigh. That part which supports the fowl when it walks. Not the
breast nor the neck nor the back nor yet the ankle, but the upper, the
superior part of the leg. Do you understand?"

"The upper part of the leg? I beg pardon, sir, but the waiter
understood that you wanted a cut from the second joint on that table,
sir."

Jimmie simply looked at him.

"The English speak a dialect somewhat resembling the American language,
Jimmie," I said, soothingly.

A knock at the door, and Bee appeared.

"Should Wives Work?" she said. "Answer that offhand! There is a
reporter down-stairs for the _Sunday Gorgon_, who wants five hundred
words from you which he is prepared to take down in shorthand. Should
Wives Work?"

"Should wives work?" I cried, ferociously. "Would they if they got a
chance? Oh, Bee, for heaven's sake, go down and tell him I'm out.
Please, Bee."

"No, just give me a few ideas, and I'll go down and enlarge on them,
and make up your five hundred words. Your opinion is so valuable. You
don't know a single thing about it!"

I got rid of her by some diplomacy, and returned to the Jimmies.

_Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie at Canterbury_.

"Never mind her, dear," said Mrs. Jimmie. "Think what a beautiful,
restful day we shall have to-morrow, wandering about Canterbury
cathedral. I can't think of a more beautiful way to spend Sunday.
London is simply dreadful on Sunday."

"London is simply dreadful at any time," said Jimmie. "Every
restaurant, even the Savoy, closes at midnight. I got shut into the
Criterion the other evening in the grill, and had to come out through
the hotel, and they unlocked more doors and unclanked more chains than
I've heard since I was the prisoner of Chillon. Talk about going wrong
in London. You simply couldn't. Goodness is thrust upon you, if you
are travelling. If you are a native and belong to the clubs--that's
different. But the way they close things in England at the very time
of all others that you want them to be open--"

Bee entered.

"Excuse me," she said, in a whisper. Bee thinks if she whispers it is
not an interruption. "A committee from the Jewish Hospital would like
to know if Aubrey will present a set of his books to the Hospital
Library."

"If he does, that will be sixty dollars that he will have paid out this
week, for his own books, for the privilege of giving them away. But as
this is the last hospital in town that he has _not_ contributed to,