"And were you told I was in deep trouble? None of your great, lordly house have yet concerned yourselves with us!"
"A proper rebuke perhaps, if you have been in trouble."
"If? Is it not so?"
"You don't wear the trappings of trouble; this house——"
"How English again!" she burst in. "What sort of a coat does he wear? How does she dress? And when you know that, you judge the character!"
"Not all of us."
"You wish me to think you an exception?"
"At least my sympathies with you should guide me right."
"That is pretty and not unpromising; but what was my trouble as described to you? Did it stir your sympathies?"
"I have not yet a clear knowledge of all your trouble. I wish to know."