"Though it does seem that no inquiry was made at all. Perhaps they don't care about those things over there as we do here. He couldn't have cared very much,—nor she."
"The Doctor thinks that they are very much to be pitied."
"The Doctor always was a little Quixotic—eh?"
"I don't think that at all, Lady Margaret."
"I mean in the way of being so very good-natured and kind. Her brother came;—didn't he?"
"Her first husband's brother," said Mrs. Wortle, blushing.
"Her first husband!"
"Well;—you know what I mean, Lady Margaret."
"Yes; I know what you mean. It is so very shocking; isn't it? And so the two men have gone off together to look for the third. Goodness me;—what a party they will be if they meet! Do you think they'll quarrel?"
"I don't know, Lady Margaret."