164 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Which showeth how Floribel descended from 
her tone didactic into her tone colloquial, and 
what she furthermore imparted. 
After a considerable pause, in 
which my sovereign lady of the soli¬ 
tude seemed to be revolving in her 
mind many subjects too deep for my 
merely mundane capacity, she turned 
round to me with extreme compla¬ 
cency, and said: 
“ Amiable Mr. Honeycomb, what 
do you really think of my inven¬ 
tion ? ” 
