"Mother is quite worried. You will just make yourself ill." Isabel was settling the pillows which Dolly had not placed rightly.
"Then I must bear it. Issy!"
"Well?"
"Don't say one word more, please, about Edred to Dolly, or before her!"
"Why? She didn't surely suspect—?"
"I'm afraid she saw through your questions. She was as stiff as a poker to him."
"Dolly always goes to such ridiculous extremes. All one wishes is that she should not look too gushingly delighted whenever he turns up."
"She didn't look gushingly delighted to-day by any means."
"Did Edred seem to notice?"
"He was equally stiff to her."