In a moment her face was clouded with sympathy which she did not quite know how to express.
"What a shame it was!" she exclaimed, forgetting that her train of thought might not be obvious to her listeners.

"But, Charlotte, it would have been much worse if Frank had disgraced himself in any way.

And it isn't what our husbands GET, but what they ARE.

I used to dream of white horses and palanquins, too; but still, I like the ink-pots best.

And who knows ?" she concluded, looking at Katharine, "your father may be made a baronet to-morrow." Lady Otway, who was Mr.Hilbery's sister, knew quite well that, in private, the Hilberys called Sir Francis "that old Turk," and though she did not follow the drift of Mrs.Hilbery's remarks, she knew what prompted them.
"But if you can give way to your husband," she said, speaking to Katharine, as if there were a separate understanding between them, "a happy marriage is the happiest thing in the world." "Yes," said Katharine, "but--" She did not mean to finish her sentence, she merely wished to induce her mother and her aunt to go on talking about marriage, for she was in the mood to feel that other people could help her if they would.