The best place for you.' Cobb was prepared for a hot retort, but it did not come.

After a moment's reflection, Louise said quietly: 'I can't go home.

I've quarrelled with them too badly.

You haven't seen mother lately?
Then I must tell you how things are.' She did so, with no concealment save of the correspondence with Mr.
Bowling, and the not unimportant statements concerning him which she had made to Mrs.Mumford.In talking with Cobb, Louise seemed to drop a degree or so in social status; her language was much less careful than when she conversed with the Mumfords, and even her voice struck a note of less refinement.

Decidedly she was more herself, if that could be said of one who very rarely made conscious disguise of her characteristics.
'Better stay where you are, then, for the present,' said Cobb, when he had listened attentively.