Jealousy, I suppose, for you're very agreeable.

And, do you know, your Mama is coming to-day?
I've got a Papa and no Mama, and you've got a Mama and no Papa.

Isn't it funny?
But I don't think so much of it, as you 're grown up.

Oh, I'm quite sure she is coming, because I heard Harry telling Juley she was, and Juley said it would be so gratifying to you.' A bribe and a message relieved the Countess of Dorothy's attendance on her.
What did this mean?
Were people so base as to be guilty of hideous plots in this house?
Her mother coming! The Countess's blood turned deadly chill.

Had it been her father she would not have feared, but her mother was so vilely plain of speech; she never opened her mouth save to deliver facts: which was to the Countess the sign of atrocious vulgarity.
But her mother had written to say she would wait for Evan in Fallow field! The Countess grasped at straws.