I should think so much smoking has something to do with it.
John Derringham meanwhile had gone with his hostess and some of the rest of the party, Mr.Hanbury-Green among them, to inspect the small golf links Mrs.Cricklander was having constructed in the park.

Her country-house must be complete with suitable amusements.

She had taken all the Wendover shooting, too, and what she could get of Lord Graceworth's beyond.

"You cannot drag people into the wilds and then bore them to death," she said.

What she most enjoyed was to scintillate to a company of two or three, and fascinate them all into a desire for a _tete-a-tete_, and then, when with difficulty one had secured this privilege, to be elusive and tantalize him to death.