"That is not true," she said. Her voice, more that her words carried effect.
She could go no further, she could only say, "That is not true."
Mrs. Leighton looked very surprised, and then helplessly bewildered. Miss Meredith had a talent for seeing her chance. She saw it here. She turned in a rather foolish way, as though they intended some compliment.
"Indeed," said she, "you all over-rate my influence with Mr. Symington. It is nothing to me whether he goes or stays."
Mabel pulled Elma into a corner.
"Oh shut up dear, for Heaven's sake shut up!" she whispered, and that incident was closed.
But Isobel began to play with a loud triumphant accompaniment and sang in a manner which might have shown every one the thing which she thought she had just discovered.
Instead, they all declared they had never heard such clear top notes.
CHAPTER XVI
The Thin Edge of the Wedge