Besides, it would have been horrible to go back to Thorneytoft, where everybody was talking and thinking things.

They _would_ talk, Nevill." "The fiends! You shouldn't have minded them, darling.

They didn't understand you.

How could they?
The brutes." "Me?
Oh, I wouldn't have minded _that_." Tyson was frankly astonished.

Apparently she had not a notion that she had been the subject of any scurrilous reports at Drayton Parva or elsewhere.