Aminta found herself sliding along into the sentiment, that the splendid idol of a girl's worship is, if she discover him in the lapse of years as an infinitesimally small one, responsible for the woman's possible reckless fit of giddiness.

And she could see her nonsense; she could not correct it.

Lines of the letters under signature of Adolphus were phosphorescent about her: they would recur; and she charged their doing so on the discovered meanness of the girl's idol.

Her wicked memory was caused by his having plunged her low.
Mrs.Pagnell performed the offices of attention to Mr.Weyburn in lieu of the countess, who seemed to find it a task to sit at the luncheon table with him, when Lady Ormont was absent.

"Just peeped in," she said as she entered the library, "to see if all was comfortable;" and gossip ensued, not devoid of object.