I think it's really all because people won't make allowances for each other." Lady Malden looked at her sideways, pursing her lips; but Mrs.Pendyce, by race a Totteridge, continued to smile.

She had been born unconscious of her neighbours' scrutinies.
"Helen Bellew," she said, "was such a lovely girl.

Her grandfather was my mother's cousin.

What does that make her?
Anyway, my cousin, Gregory Vigil, is her first cousin once removed--the Hampshire Vigils.

Do you know him ?" Lady Malden answered: "Gregory Vigil?
The man with a lot of greyish hair?
I've had to do with him in the S.R.W.C." But Mrs.Pendyce was dancing mentally.
"Such a good fellow! What is that--the---- ?" Lady Malden gave her a sharp look.
"Society for the Rescue of Women and Children, of course.