"In the country people are usually frumps when they are not bores, and bores when they are not frumps, and I am in danger of becoming both myself.

Six weeks of unalloyed dinner-parties, composed of certain people I know, would make me begin to wear moreen petticoats and talk about the deplorable condition of London society." She led all her flock out on to the lawn under the ilex-trees after breakfast.
"Let us go and encourage industry," she said.

"We will watch Emily Fox-Seton working.

She is an example." Curiously enough, this was Miss Cora Brooke's day.

She found herself actually walking across the lawn with Lord Walderhurst by her side.