As she turned the first page her expression changed.

As has previously been suggested, the epistolary methods of Lady Walderhurst were neither brilliant nor literary, and yet Mrs.Osborn seemed to be pleased by what she read.

During the reading of a line or so she wore an expression of slowly questioning wonder, which, a little later on, settled into relief.
"I can only say I think it's very decent of them," she ejaculated at last; "really decent!" Alec Osborn looked up, still scowlingly.
"I don't see any cheque," he observed.

"That would be the most decent thing.

It's the thing we want most, with this damned woman sending in bills like this for the fourth-rate things we live on, and for her confounded tenth-rate rooms." "This is better than cheques.