Lady Agatha lifted the eyes like blue flowers, and they were pathetic.
"Oh!" she gave forth almost impetuously, "sometimes it seems as if it does not matter whether one has eyes or not." It was a pleasure to Emily Fox-Seton to realise that after this the beauty seemed to be rather drawn toward her.

Their acquaintance became almost a sort of intimacy over the wool scarf for the deep-sea fisherman, which was taken up and laid down, and even carried out on the lawn and left under the trees for the footmen to restore when they brought in the rugs and cushions.

Lady Maria was amusing herself with the making of knitted scarfs and helmets just now, and bits of white or gray knitting were the fashion at Mallowe.

Once Agatha brought hers to Emily's room in the afternoon to ask that a dropped stitch might be taken up, and this established a sort of precedent.

Afterward they began to exchange visits.
The strenuousness of things was becoming, in fact, almost too much for Lady Agatha.