Why, it has gone out of fashion.

It is an exploded essence.

Nobody gives it a thought." "That is _fatally true,"_ says old Miss Gower in a sepulchral tone.
She has been sitting in a corner near them, knitting sedulously until now.

But now she uplifts her voice.

She uplifts her eyes, too, and fixes them on Mrs.Chichester the frivolous.