I want to speak to you for a few minutes, and I will sit down here.

Don't you stand up." La Fleur liked people to come and talk to her, provided they were the right sort of people, and came in the right way.

Miss Panney's salutation pleased her; she had a respect for people who showed a proper recognition of differences of position.

If Miss Panney had been brought into the kitchen by Mrs.Tolbridge and in a manner introduced to La Fleur, the latter would have regarded her as something of an equal, and would not have respected her.

Had the old lady accosted her in a supercilious manner, La Fleur would have disliked her, even if she had supposed she were a person to be respected.