Sounds like poetry out of one of your wretched books." "And now," said Celia, after a while, "I must be going, Lady Gridborough.

I have been away quite a long time." "You must come again," said the old lady.
"Do you think," said Celia, hesitatingly, as she slipped on her jacket, "that the young woman, Susie, as you call her, would let me go to see her sometimes?
I should like to." "Yes, my dear," said her ladyship, with a nod which showed she was pleased.

"Go and see her, by all means.

You're a girl of about her own age, and she may open her heart to you.

A sad business--a sad business," she murmured.