On the other hand, her distance from all friends and advisers would give Miss King a freedom which was very perilous.
"I can't think," she said, "what takes either of you to such a place." "I'm going to catch salmon," said Sir Gilbert.

"Millicent tells me that she wants rest and quiet.

I daresay she does." "I wish very much," said Lady Hawkesby, "that she was safely married to some quiet sensible man." There was a good deal of sound common sense and knowledge of human nature in her "safely." Lady Hawkesby was not a brilliant woman.

She was in many ways a foolish woman.

But she had certain beliefs founded on the experience of many generations of people like herself, and therefore entitled to respect.