There was a good deal of running into each other's rooms before dressing for dinner among the ladies at Montfitchet, that night.

They had, they felt, to exchange views about the new bride! And the opinions were favorable, on the whole; unanimous, as to her beauty and magnetic attraction; divided, as to her character; but fiercely and venomously antagonistic in one mean, little heart.
Emily and Mary and Lady Betty Burns clustered together in the latter's room.

"We think she is perfectly lovely, Betty," Emily said, "but we don't know her as yet.

She is rather stiff, and frightens us just a little.

Perhaps she is shy.