"Indeed! May I ask in what way ?" "Oh, she has such old-fashioned ideas," Louise said, confidentially.
"I've quite lost patience with her, and so has Selina; haven't you, dear?
She never goes to parties if she can help it, she is positively rude to all our friends, and the sarcastic things she says sometimes are most unpleasant.

You know, papa is very, very good to her." "Yes, indeed," Selina interrupted.

"You know, Mr.Brooks, she has no father and mother, and she was living quite alone in London when papa found her out and brought her here--and in the most abject poverty.

I believe he found her in a garret.

Fancy that!" "And now," Louise continued, "he allows her for her clothes exactly the same as he does us--and look at her.