All this Sir Alured knew and the barrister knew it,--and they feared her indignation the more because they sympathised with the old lady's feelings.
"Emily Wharton doesn't seem to me to be a bit more gracious than she used to be," Mrs.Fletcher said to Lady Wharton that night.

The two old ladies were sitting together upstairs, and Mrs.John Fletcher was with them.

In such conferences Mrs.Fletcher always domineered,--to the perfect contentment of old Lady Wharton, but not equally so to that of her daughter-in-law.
"I'm afraid she is not very happy," said Lady Wharton.
"She has everything that ought to make a girl happy, and I don't know what it is she wants.

It makes me quite angry to see her so discontented.

She doesn't say a word, but sits there as glum as death.