She bade Cassandra put her creatures in the charge of a groom, and come to them for a week or so.

They would go and hear some music together.
Cassandra's dislike of rational society, she said, was an affectation fast hardening into a prejudice, which would, in the long run, isolate her from all interesting people and pursuits.

She was finishing the sheet when the sound she was anticipating all the time actually struck upon her ears.

She jumped up hastily, and slammed the door with a sharpness which made Mrs.Hilbery start.

Where was Katharine off to?
In her preoccupied state she had not heard the bell.
The alcove on the stairs, in which the telephone was placed, was screened for privacy by a curtain of purple velvet.