4/50 His quick sense perceived something delicately offensive in every word and look of the great lady. Doris, of course, had done an incredibly foolish thing. What she had come to say to Lady Dunstable he could not conceive; for the first explanation--that of a silly jealousy--had by now entirely failed him. But it was evident to him that Lady Dunstable assumed it--or chose to assume it. And for the first time he thought her odious! Doris seemed to guess it, for she pressed his arm as though to keep him quiet. |