But after this she had asked a good many, and her aunt's answers, whatever turn they took, struck her as food for deep reflexion.

Mrs.Touchett waited for the return of her other niece as long as she thought reasonable, but as at six o'clock Mrs.Ludlow had not come in she prepared to take her departure.
"Your sister must be a great gossip.

Is she accustomed to staying out so many hours ?" "You've been out almost as long as she," Isabel replied; "she can have left the house but a short time before you came in." Mrs.Touchett looked at the girl without resentment; she appeared to enjoy a bold retort and to be disposed to be gracious.

"Perhaps she hasn't had so good an excuse as I.Tell her at any rate that she must come and see me this evening at that horrid hotel.

She may bring her husband if she likes, but she needn't bring you.