The revelation seemed merely to surprise her.

She was smiling, as if at the amusingly unexpected.
"Lady Ogram certainly knows," said Mrs.Toplady.
"Then of course that's why he does nothing," May exclaimed.

"Fancy!" Her provincialism was becoming very marked.

"A lord with hardly enough to live upon! But I'm astonished that he seems so cheerful." "Lord Dymchurch has a very philosophical mind," said the older lady, with gravity humorously exaggerated.
"Yes, I suppose he has.

Now I shall understand him better.