Diana laughed, a little awkwardly.
"I am afraid Mrs.Fotheringham thinks me a child of blood and thunder! I am so sorry!" "If she presses you too hard, call me in.

Isabel and I understand each other." Diana murmured something polite.
Mr.Frobisher meanwhile came to meet them with a remark upon the beauty of the evening, and Alicia Drake followed.
"I expect you found it a horrid long way," she said to Diana.

Diana disclaimed fatigue.
"You came _so_ slowly, we thought you must be tired." Something in the drawling manner and the slightly insolent expression made the words sting.

Diana hurried on to Marion Vincent's side.

That lady was leaning on a stick, and for the first time Diana saw that she was slightly lame.