But Sarah had been invited to tea at the confused, simple abode of the Kitson family, and had behaved perfectly.
"I think you must be wrong, nurse," said Mrs.Kitson.

"She seems a very nice little girl.

Mary needs companions.

It's good for her to be taken out of herself." Had Mrs.Kitson been of a less confused mind, however, had she had more time for the proper observation of her daughter, she would have noticed her daughter's pale cheeks, her daughter's fits of crying, her daughter's silences.

Even as the bird is fascinated by the snake, so was Mary Kitson fascinated by Sarah Trefusis.
"You are torturing that infant," said Hortense, and Sarah smiled.
IV Mary was by no means the first of Sarah's victim's.