"I shall want to know what Clarice says." She never did know exactly, for when Clarice gave Peter her congratulations in the terrace garden after dinner, she missed, extraordinarily for her, the felicitous note.
"I'm so happy for Eunice, you can't imagine," she insisted.

"I've always said we've none of us known what Eunice can do until she's had her opportunity.

And now with all the background you can give her---- You'll see!" He didn't quite know what he was to see except that if Eunice were to be in the picture it was bound to be satisfying.

But Mrs.Lessing was not done with him.

"For all her being so beautiful and so well placed," she went on, "Eunice has never had any life at all, not what you might call a life.