"My dear Ellen, I beg you will not interfere any more with Connie's riding.

I have given leave, and that really must settle it.

She tells me that her father always allowed her to ride alone--with a groom--in London and the Campagna; she will of course pay all the expenses of it out of her own income, and I see no object whatever in thwarting her.
She is sure to find our life dull enough anyway, after the life she has been living." "I don't know why you should call Oxford dull, Ewen!" said Mrs.Hooper resentfully.

"I consider the society here much better than anything Connie was likely to see on the Riviera--much more respectable anyway.
Well, of course, everybody will call her fast--but that's your affair.

I can see already she won't be easily restrained.