Do you suppose I haven't known they didn't want to come here and visit us?
Oh, I knew, but I _made_ them.

And it was all for you.

What did I care for them and their daft-like ways and their uninteresting talk about dogs and books and things! It would have been far nicer for me to have made friends with the people in the little villas.

My! I've often thought how I would relish a tea-party at the Watsons'! Your father used to have a saying about it being better to be at the head of the commonalty than at the tail of the gentry, and I know it's true.

Mrs.Duff-Whalley of The Towers would be a big body at the Miss Watsons' tea-parties, and I know fine I'm only tolerated at the Tweedies' and the Olivers' and all the others." "Poor Mother! You've been splendid!" "If you aren't happy, what does anything matter?
I'm fair disheartened, I tell you.