28/123 Since you're so good as to ask why Aggie has fallen off you'll excuse my telling you that you've just named the reason. You've known ever since we came to England what I feel about the proper persons--and the most improper--for her to meet. The Tishy Grendons are not a bit the proper." Mrs.Brookenham continued to assist a little in the preparations for tea. "Why not say at once, Jane"-- and her tone, in its appeal, was almost infantine--"that you've come at last to placing even poor Nanda, for Aggie's wonderful purpose, in the same impossible class ?" The Duchess took her time, but at last she accepted her duty. |