They're all very well for holding together tumbledown old places, but The Towers doesn't need them.

And I'm sure he would be pleased to-day if he saw it.

The times people have advised me to grow ivy--even Lady Tweedie, the last time she came to tea--but I never would.

It's as new-looking as the day he left it....
You don't want to leave The Towers, Muriel ?" "No--o, but--don't you think, Mother, we needn't work quite so hard for our social existence?
I mean, let's be more friendly with the people round us, and not strive so hard to keep in with the County set.

If Miss Reston can do it, surely we can." "But don't you see," her mother said, "Miss Reston can do it just because she is Miss Reston.