"I did," she said simply.
"Ah," said the doctor, "I see.

Well, as I said, ordinary friends could not be admitted.

Lady Ingleby went, in her sweet impulsive way, without letting them know she was coming; travelled all the way up from Shenstone with no maid, and nothing but a handbag, and arrived at the door in a fly.

Robert Mackenzie, the local medical man, who is an inveterate misogynist, feared at first she was an unsuspected wife of Dal's.

He seemed to think unannounced ladies arriving in hired vehicles must necessarily turn out to be undesirable wives.