"Dora, you are too fastidious."
"No, because a wronged body means something to a sensitive soul."
"If you look at such a small thing in a light so important, you had better take your breakfast alone. Good-morning!"
CHAPTER IV
FOES IN THE HOUSEHOLD
She was ill for some hours, and all day much troubled at the circumstance. In her proposed fight against the hatred of her husband's family she had lost the first move, for she could well imagine the triumphant mockery of her mother-in-law over her weakness and squeamishness. In the afternoon she asked for the carriage, as she wished to do some shopping, and was told Mrs. Campbell was intending to use it. Then she sent for a cab and while she was dressing, Christina came into her room wearing her street costume.
"Isabel is going out with mother," she said. "Can I go with you, Theodora?"
The proposal was not welcome, but without hesitation Theodora answered: "I shall be obliged if you will. I have some shopping to do, and you can tell me the best places to go to."
"I certainly can; I know all the best shops. I always do the shopping. I like to shop; Isabel hates it. She says the shopmen are not civil to her. Isabel is so particular about her dignity."