It is curious how on the alert people are when they hear of a love affair.
'I will go and dress at once; he must be nice if Miss Hall likes him, for she is certainly the least intrusive, and all that sort of thing.

Is he like Rowland Prothero ?' Freda coloured at this sudden question.
'No, not at all; besides, he is a middle-aged man.' 'To be sure; I suppose so.

Miss Hall must be--I don't know--nearly forty I suppose.

I wish Rowland Prothero lived at the farm; he was so obliging and pleasant; even Lady Mary Nugent admires him.' 'She is no great criterion of what is agreeable; I shouldn't think it any compliment to be liked by her.

There is the dressing bell.