You needn't see much of her if you don't." "Is it easy to drop people ?" "Perfectly." "And what about Mrs.Ransome ?" He frowned.

"Has _she_ called ?" "Yes." "I'll find out when she's not at home and let you know.

You can call then." A fourth card he tore up and threw into the fire.
"Some people have confounded impudence." Anne went away confirmed in her impression that Walter had a large acquaintance to whom he was by no means anxious to introduce his wife.

He might, she reflected, have incurred the connection through the misfortune of his business.

The life of a ship-owner in Scale was fruitful in these embarrassments.
But if these disagreeable people indeed belonged to the period she mentally referred to as his "past," she was not going to tolerate them for an instant.