Her temper had been tried fearfully.

By slow degrees the guests went.
"Send back the carriage quick," said Ethelbert, as Dr.and Mrs.
Stanhope took their departure.
The younger Stanhopes were left to the very last, and an uncomfortable party they made with the bishop's family.

They all went into the dining-room, and then the bishop observing that "the lady" was alone in the drawing-room, they followed him up.

Mrs.
Proudie kept Mr.Slope and her daughters in close conversation, resolving that he should not be indulged, nor they polluted.

The bishop, in mortal dread of Bertie and the Jews, tried to converse with Charlotte Stanhope about the climate of Italy.