26/40 "She isn't using the automobile to-day." "Doctor Sturtevant has had that coachman thirty years, and he doesn't chew, he drives," said Daisy. The house was very small, but perkily pretentious, and they drove under the porte-cochere to alight. "Mr.and Mrs.Slade went to the opera last week. I heard they had taken a box for the season, and Mrs.Slade had a new black velvet gown and a pearl necklace. I think she is almost too old to wear low neck." "She is not so very old," replied Alice. |