Dora asked me to come and show her the new flower-stitch for table centres.

Dora's suddenly taken to fancy work.

She's started a lot--a lot too much!" Stella added gloomily.
"If Dora likes to do fancy work I don't see why anybody should want to stop her," remarked Mrs Murchison, with a meaning glance at her husband.
"I suppose she thinks she's going to get Lorne," said Stella.

Her resentment was only half-serious, but the note was there.
"What put that into your head ?" asked her mother.
"Oh, well, anybody can see that he's devoted to her, and has been for ages, and it isn't as if Lorne was one to HAVE girlfriends; she's absolutely the only thing he's ever looked at twice.

She hasn't got a ring, that's true, but it would be just like her to want him to get it in England.