"I always long to bring them to light again, and to make this place livable; but my husband does not like change." "Dear Timothy is faithful to the past," said Miss Crewys, majestically.
"I wish old Lady Crewys had been as faithful," said Lady Mary, shrugging her shoulders.
"Young people always like changes," said Lady Belstone, more leniently.
"Young people!" said Lady Mary, with a rather pathetic smile.
"John will think you are laughing at me.

Am I to be young still at five-and-thirty ?" "To be sure," said John, "unless you are going to be so unkind as to make a man only ten years your senior feel elderly." Miss Crewys interposed with a simple statement.

"In my day, the age of a lady was never referred to in polite conversation.

Least of all by herself.

I never allude to mine." "You are unmarried, Georgina," said Lady Belstone, unexpectedly turning upon her ally.