Mais c'est affreux!" "Hold your tongue," said Geoffrey sharply, "and leave Miss Effie alone.
She came to see me." Anne ejaculated, "Mon Dieu!" once more and collapsed.
"Really, Geoffrey," said his wife, "the way you spoil that child is something shocking.

She is wilful as can be, and you make her worse.

It is very naughty of her to run away like that and give us such a hunt.
How are we to get her home, I wonder, with only one shoe." Her husband bit his lip, and his forehead contracted itself above the dark eyes.

It was not the first time that he and Lady Honoria had come to words about the child, with whom his wife was not in sympathy.

Indeed she had never forgiven Effie for appearing in this world at all.