When he was ready to resume the conversation she was talking to his son, and the Squire, frowning, turned to the Hon.

Mrs.Winlow.
Her attention was automatic, complete, monosyllabic; she did not appear to fatigue herself by an over-sympathetic comprehension, nor was she subservient.

Mr.Pendyce found her a competent listener.
"The country is changing," he said, "changing every day.

Country houses are not what they were.

A great responsibility rests on us landlords.