"If William requires you to give references, my dear, just come to me."
Mary uttered a small shriek.
"References! Oh, please! If anybody ever says 'references' to me again I'll just die. Bill, you'll have to take me without any at all."
Bill took her.
Aunt Caroline readjusted her spectacles and opened her book.
"There is only one thing that really upsets me," she said, half aloud. "I shall never find out what they say about Mrs. Rokeby-Jones's elder daughter."