Only old Mrs.Wentworth looked grave and disapproving at the extravagance of her daughter-in-law.

Still she never said a word of it, and when the grandson came she was too overjoyed to complain of anything.
It was only of late that people had begun to whisper of the frequency with which Ferdy Wickersham was seen with Mrs.Norman.Certain it was that he was with her a great deal.
That evening Alice Lancaster was dining with the Norman Wentworths.

She was equally good friends with them and with their children, who on their part idolized her and considered her to be their especial property.

Her appearance was always the signal for a romp.

Whenever she went to the Wentworths' she always paid a visit to the nursery, from which she would return breathless and dishevelled, with an expression of mingled happiness and pain in her blue eyes.