"Mrs. Montacute Jones."
"Dear Mrs. Jones. I do like Mrs. Jones."
"And Adelaide Houghton with her husband." Mary turned up her nose and made a grimace as the Houghtons were named. "You used to be very fond of Adelaide."
"Very fond is a long word. We were by way of being friends; but we are friends no longer."
"Tell me what she did to offend you, Lady George? I know there was something."
"You are her cousin. Of course I am not going to abuse her to you."
"She's not half so much my cousin as you are my friend,—if I may say so. What did she do or what did she say?"
"She painted her face."
"If you're going to quarrel, Lady George, with every woman in London who does that, you'll have a great many enemies."
"And the hair at the back of her head got bigger and bigger every month. Papa always quotes something about Dr. Fell when he's asked why he does not like anybody. She's Dr. Fell to me."