Then we go somewhere else.
Oh dear!" "Why do you say 'oh dear' ?" "Because--; I don't think I mean to tell you." "Then I'm sure I won't ask." "That's so like you, Alice.

But I can be as firm as you, and I'm sure I won't tell you unless you do ask." But Alice did not ask, and it was not long before Lady Glencora's firmness gave way.
But, as I have said, Alice had become quite comfortable at Matching Priory.

Perhaps she was already growing upwards towards the light.
At any rate she could listen with pleasure to the few words the Duke would say to her.

She could even chat a little to the Duchess,--so that her Grace had observed to Lady Glencora that "her cousin was a very nice person,--a very nice person indeed.

What a pity it was that she had been so ill-treated by that gentleman in Oxfordshire!" Lady Glencora had to explain that the gentleman lived in Cambridgeshire, and that he, at any rate, had not treated anybody ill.