Mary, too, looked at her almost as if she begged her to make things easy.

For Katharine had shown no disposition to make things easy.

She had scarcely spoken, and her silence, though grave and even thoughtful, seemed to Mary the silence of one who criticizes.
"Well, there are more in this house than I'd any notion of," she said.
"On the ground floor you protect natives, on the next you emigrate women and tell people to eat nuts--" "Why do you say that 'we' do these things ?" Mary interposed, rather sharply.

"We're not responsible for all the cranks who choose to lodge in the same house with us." Mr.Clacton cleared his throat and looked at each of the young ladies in turn.

He was a good deal struck by the appearance and manner of Miss Hilbery, which seemed to him to place her among those cultivated and luxurious people of whom he used to dream.