Will you all come and have supper this evening?
Mother will be delighted to see you--Do come, Miss Bertram." She looked sympathetically and eagerly at Catherine.

Catherine in her shabby, ill-fitting dress was not nearly such a distinguished figure as Miss Meadowsweet, whose serge costume fitted her like a glove.

Yet Catherine drew herself up as if the invitation half offended her.
"I ?" she began.

She looked at Loftus.

Her color came and went.
"Catherine is overpowered," remarked the brother, with a smile at Miss Meadowsweet, but a certain expression about his mouth which Kate too well interpreted.