"Thoroughly satisfied," said Mrs.Clavering, drawing herself up and looking very unlike the usual Mrs.Clavering of the rectory.

After that there was no further conversation between her and Sir Hugh.

"The worst of him to me is always this," she said that evening to her husband, "that he puts me so much out of conceit with myself.

If I were with him long I should begin to find myself the most disagreeable woman in England!" "Then pray don't be with him long," said the rector.
But Archie made conversation throughout dinner, and added greatly to Mrs.Clavering's troubles by doing so.

There was nothing in common between them, but still Archie went on laboriously with his work.