Lady Tresham was a quiet little woman, who could endure to be patronized by Lady Mountjoy without annoyance.

And there was M.Grascour, from the Belgian Foreign Office, who spoke English so much better than the other gentlemen present that a stranger might have supposed him to be a school-master whose mission it was to instruct the English Embassy in their own language.
"Oh, Mrs Mountjoy, I am so ashamed of myself!" said Lady Mountjoy, as she waddled into the room two minutes after the guests had been assembled.

She had a way of waddling that was quite her own, and which they who knew her best declared that she had adopted in lieu of other graces of manner.

She puffed a little also, and did contrive to attract peculiar attention.

"But I have to be in my carriage every day at the same hour.