Ask her, if you'd be so truly sweet, for a Sunday; or something of that sort, and even if only in one of your MOST mixed parties, to Catchmore." Miss Cutter felt the less hopeful after this effort in that her companion only showed a strange good nature.

And it wasn't a satiric amiability, though it WAS amusement.

"Take Mrs.Medwin into my family ?" "Some day when you're taking forty others." "Ah but what I don't see is what it does for YOU.

You're already so welcome among us that you can scarcely improve your position even by forming for us the most delightful relation." "Well, I know how dear you are," Mamie Cutter replied; "but one has after all more than one side and more than one sympathy.

I like her, you know." And even at this Lady Wantridge wasn't shocked; she showed that ease and blandness which were her way, unfortunately, of being most impossible.