"Then I wonder what Romer would do?"
"I know what he would do."
"Good heavens, Isabella, you don't mean to say that he would ever bring a——"
"It's really strange," said Mrs. Wyburn, "that at your age you should still be so silly. Will you never learn to understand anything at all? Of course not. He would protect her."
"Can't something be done? Why don't you speak to Valentia?"
"The advice of a relative-in-law in a case of this kind has never yet been known to be of any real use, Millie. I can only hope the whole thing may gradually wear itself out."
"May it be so, my dear!" echoed Miss Westbury, unctuously.
Miss Westbury helped her to fasten her mantle.
"I'm so glad you loosened it, or else you might not feel the benefit of it when you go out, Isabella," she observed, for she was not one to miss an opportunity of making a remark of this kind. "And do look on the bright side. I always say that things of this sort may not be true, and even if they are, everything may be for the best in the end."