It was quite impossible to imagine where any young lady could get such an idea.

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Miss Laetitia Rowly recognised that she had a difficult task before her, for she was by now accustomed to Stephen's quiet method of having her own way.
She made a careful toilet before driving over to Normanstand.

Her wearing her best bonnet was a circumstance not unattended with dread for some one.

Behold her then, sailing into the great drawing-room at Normanstand with her mind so firmly fixed on the task before her as to be oblivious of minor considerations.