I'm just two-and-twenty--do I look older?
I haven't learnt to do anything, and I suppose I shall never need to.' 'Do you wish to see _much_ society ?' inquired Mrs.Mumford, who was thinking rapidly, 'or should you prefer a few really nice people?
I'm afraid I don't quite understand yet whether you want society of the pleasure-seeking kind, or--' She left the alternative vague.

Miss Derrick again reflected for a moment before abruptly declaring herself.
'I feel sure that your friends are the kind I want to know.

At all events, I should like to try.

The great thing is to get away from home and see how things look.' They laughed together.

Emmeline, after a little more talk, offered to take her visitor over the house, and Miss Derrick had loud praise for everything she saw.
'What I like about you,' she exclaimed of a sudden, as they stood looking from a bedroom window on to the garden, 'is that you don't put on any--you know what I mean.