“Ah, but you must tell me how all this has been brought about. I promise never to molest you again—never to trouble you, but how, in the name of all that’s wonderful, have you managed to become a lady of fashion, for such I presume you are?”
“Your surmise is a correct one.”
“How has it been done? That’s what I want to know.”
“By moving in good society in the first place, and in the next becoming the wife of an honourable and wealthy gentleman.”
“Good society—how was that managed?”
“Easily enough. We had a good introduction.”
“We. Who do you allude to besides yourself?”
“Mrs. Bristow, to be sure.”
“What! John Bristow’s wife?”
“Certainly—none other. She came into a fortune.”