This type was admitted to be frequently found readier for service in the preparation of entertainments "for the benefit of"-- more especially when such benefits took the form of dancing.

But the Duchess' little Miss Lawless came and went on errands, wasting no time.

She never forgot things or was slack in any way.

Her antelope eyes expressed a kind of yearning eagerness to do all she could without a moment's delay.
"She works as if it were a personal thing with her," Lady Lothwell once said thoughtfully.

"I have seen girls wear that look when they are war brides or have lovers or brothers at the front." But she remained to the world generally only a rather specially lovely specimen of the somewhat unreal young being with whom great agonies and terrors had but little to do.
On a day when the Duchess had a cold and was obliged to remain in her room Robin was with her, writing and making notes of instruction at her bedside.