Morton did get a seat beside her and managed to take away her muff and one of her shawls, but she gave them to him almost as she might have done to a servant.

She smiled indeed,--but she smiled as some women smile at everybody who has any intercourse with them.
"I think perhaps Mrs.Morton will let us go up-stairs," said Lady Augustus.

Mrs.Morton immediately rang the bell and prepared to precede the ladies to their chambers.

Let them be as insolent as they would she would do what she conceived to be her duty.

Then Lady Augustus stalked out of the room and her daughter swum after her.
"They don't seem to be quite the same as they were in Washington," said the Senator.
John Morton got up and left the room without making any reply.