As yet she was used to thinking and speaking with all candour.

She was to have her training in the charms of superficiality, but that was to come; and when it came she would not be an unskilful apprentice.

Perhaps the latent subtlety of her race came to help her natural candour at the moment.

For she said at once, in a slow, quiet tone: "I never heard my husband speak of you.

Will you sit down ?" "And Mrs.Armour and Marion are not in?
No, I suppose your husband did not speak much of his old friends." The attack was studied and cruel.