For a moment he ignored the waiting pages.
"Your cousin," he remarked, "is quite unlike any of you.

Has she been with you long ?" Louise looked up a little tartly.
"Oh, about three years.

You are quite right when you say that she is unlike any of us.

It doesn't seem nice to complain about her exactly, but she really is terribly trying, isn't she, Selina ?" Selina nodded, and dropped her voice.
"She is getting worse," she declared.

"She is becoming a positive trouble to us." Brooks endeavoured to look properly sympathetic, and considered himself justified in pursuing the conversation.