They won't be able to go themselves, poor souls, and I thought it would be a certain consolation to them to know that a friend had gone.

I must say, I think she might have shown more gratitude.

She was really quite off-hand.

I think ministers' wives have often bad manners; they deal so much with the working classes...." Jean thought of a saying she had read of Dr.Johnson's: "He talked to me at the Club one day concerning Catiline's conspiracy--so I withdrew my attention and thought about Tom Thumb." When she came back to Mrs.
Duff-Whalley that lady was saying: "Did you say, Jean, that Miss Reston is coming back to Priorsford soon ?" "Yes, any day." "Fancy! And her brother too ?" Jean said she thought not: Lord Bidborough was going to London.
"Ah! then we shall see him there.

I don't know when I met anyone with whom I felt so instantly at home.