She's not coming to Thorneytoft after all." "I didn't know she was expected." "Well, I wanted her to run down and entertain me a little, now that she can get away." "It would be rather a sacrifice for her to leave town just at the beginning of the season." "That's it.

She has such hosts of engagements--always going out somewhere.

She tells me she thinks nothing of five theatres in one week." Miss Batchelor raised her eyebrows.
"She must be very much stronger than she was at Thorneytoft." "She's never been so well in her life.

Thorneytoft didn't agree with her at all.

She's been a different woman since they left it." (This to guard against any suspicion of an attraction in the neighborhood.) "Nevill was never well there either." "I never thought it would suit Mr.Tyson." "No; it wasn't the life for him at all.