"My own fault, I am afraid. I had once to suggest to her that a certain line of action was not right, and Hermione did not seem grateful for the suggestion. But perhaps she has got over it now, and I should like to see her again. Cannot you both drive over to lunch one day next week?"
[CHAPTER XXIV.]
PRINCE AND EMPEROR.
"I AM going to take you two or three miles round, instead of straight home," Harvey said, as they started. Julia was turning back to wave a farewell. "So you like Mrs. Ogilvie?"
"Very much. Oh, very much, indeed. She is charming!"
"Mrs. Ogilvie says the same of my wife."
"Does she? I am glad if she likes me. But when did she say it?"
"When you ran back into the house for your shawl."
"She had not much time then. Harvey, isn't it odd that she should be an old friend of Hermione's mother, and that Hermione should never have spoken her name?"
"I don't pretend to understand Hermione's ways. Hermione's mother must have been considerably Mrs. Ogilvie's senior."