15/28 He introduced himself: "Mr.Richard Storms." The mother gave him her card: "Mrs.John Harley." She added: "My name is Hanway-Harley, and this is my daughter, Dorothy Harley. "Just to think!" she concluded, and a curdling horror gathered in her tones. "Dorothy, you might have broken your nose!" Richard ran a glance over Mrs.Hanway-Harley. She was not coarse, but was superficial--a woman of inferior ideals. He marveled how a being so fine as the daughter could have had a no more silken source, and hugged the boot-heel. |