perhaps, in this instance, with pleasure rather than pain.
‘Tell Mr. Copperfield about the flight.’
‘Mr. James and myself, ma’am — ’
‘Don’t address yourself to me!’ she interrupted with a frown.
‘Mr. James and myself, sir — ’
‘Nor to me, if you please,’ said I.
Mr. Littimer, without being at all discomposed, signified by a slight obeisance, that anything that was most agreeable to us was most agreeable to him; and began again.
‘Mr. James and myself have been abroad with the young woman, ever since she left Yarmouth under Mr. James’s