He treated the authority with marked contempt; and then Rosa fired up a little.

Then Staines held his peace; but did not buy a carriage to visit his no patients.
So at last Rosa complained to Lady Cicely Treherne, and made her the judge between her husband and herself.

Lady Cicely drawled out a prompt but polite refusal to play that part.

All that could be elicited from her, and that with difficulty, was, "Why quall with your husband about a cawwige; he is your best fwiend." "Ah, that he is," said Rosa; "but Miss Lucas is a good friend, and she knows the world.

We don't; neither Christopher nor I." So she continued to nag at her husband about it, and to say that he was throwing his only chance away.
Galled as he was by neglect, this was irritating, and at last he could not help telling her she was unreasonable.