That is to say, she was rash enough to change the subject.
"You were talking just now, Hugh, of our friend's adventures," she said; "I am afraid you will find yourself involved in an adventure of no very agreeable kind, if you engage a bed at the inn.

I never saw a more wretched-looking place." It was one of Mrs.Vimpany's many merits that she seldom neglected an opportunity of setting her friends at their ease.
"No, no, dear Miss Henley," she hastened to say; "the inn is really a more clean and comfortable place than you suppose.

A hard bed and a scarcity of furniture are the worst evils which your friend has to fear.

Do you know," she continued, addressing herself to Mountjoy, "that I was reminded of a friend of mine, when you spoke just now of the young gentleman whose adventures are in the newspapers.

Is it possible that you referred to the brother of the present Earl of Norland?
A handsome young Irishman--with whom I first became acquainted many years since.