Once she chuckled aloud.
"Never mind me, my dear," she said, in answer to Mary's glance.

"I was only thinking of something Denis Drummond, Gerald Drummond's elder brother, said of her Ladyship.

Ah, poor Denis! He'd face a charge of the guns more readily than he would her Ladyship.

Odd, isn't it, Mary, how those thoroughly disagreeable women can make themselves feared ?".