She's a relative, and it isn't as if she were entertaining a number of people.

She says she's very quiet; she has hardly asked anybody, only one or two intimate friends." "She'll have three or four men down for the partridge shooting." "After all," said Sylvia, "I can't make her send them away.

You have once or twice had men from town here." "Susan leads a very different life from mine," Mrs.Lansing persisted.
"She's a little too fond of amusement, and I don't approve of all her friends." She paused as an idea struck her.

"Is Captain Bland going there for the shooting ?" "I really can't tell you.

Is there any reason why she shouldn't invite him ?" Mrs.Lansing would have preferred that Sylvia should not see so much of Bland as she was likely to do if she stayed in the same house with him, though she knew of nothing in particular to his discredit.