I suppose you often go to her Drawing Rooms." Mrs.Portheris wore the expression of one passing through the Stone Age to a somewhat more mobile period.

"I really think," she said, "I should have been made aware of that.

To have had a young relative presented without one's knowledge seems _too_ extraordinary.

No," she continued, turning to poppa, "the only thing I heard of this young lady--it came to me in a _very_ roundabout manner--was that she had gone home to be _married_.

Was not that your intention ?" asked Mrs.Portheris, turning to me.
"It was," I said.