There, I must take my bonnet off.

You have pulled the strings so that you have almost choked me." And Lady Lufton deposited her bonnet on the table, and seated herself comfortably in the corner of the sofa.
"My dear," she said, "there is no duty which any woman owes to any other human being at all equal to that which she owes to her husband, and, therefore, you were quite right to stand up for Mr.Robarts this morning." Upon this Mrs.Robarts said nothing, but she got her hand within that of her ladyship and gave it a slight squeeze.
"And I loved you for what you were doing all the time.

I did, my dear; though you were a little fierce, you know.

Even Justinia admits that, and she has been at me ever since you went away.

And, indeed, I did not know that it was in you to look in that way out of those pretty eyes of yours." "Oh, Lady Lufton!" "But I looked fierce enough too myself, I dare say; so we'll say nothing more about that; will we?
But now, about this good man of yours ?" "Dear Lady Lufton, you must forgive him." "Well, as you ask me, I will.