But he told me that the Duchess had felt herself hurt by that other woman's way of talking." "But it was not your fault." "No; that's what I said.

It was he who desired me to ask Mrs Conway Sparkes to come here.

I didn't want her.

She goes everywhere, and it is thought a catch to get her; but if she had been drowned in the Red Sea I shouldn't have minded.

When I told him that, he said it was nonsense,--which of course it was; and then he said I ought to make her hold her tongue.