"But Miss Bride has more to tell you." Constance looked inquiringly.
"Statistics ?" she asked, when Lady Ogram paid no heed to her look.
"Don't be stupid.

Tell him what I think about villages altogether." "Yes, I should very much like to hear that," said Dyce, whose confidence was gaining ground.
"Lady Ogram doesn't like the draining of the country population into towns; she thinks it a harmful movement, with bad results on social and political life, on national life from every point of view This seems to her to be the great question of the day.

How to keep up village life ?--in face of the fact that English agriculture seems to be doomed.
At Shawe, as Lady Ogram thinks, and we all do, a step has been taken in the right direction.

Lots of the young people who are now working here in wholesome surroundings would by this time have been lost in the slums of London or Liverpool or Birmingham.

Of course, as a mill-owner, she has made sacrifices; she hasn't gone about the business with only immediate profit in view; children and girls have been taught what they wouldn't have learnt but for Lady Ogram's kindness." "Admirable!" murmured Mr.Gallantry.