“Most certainly; and I will work you a banner if you be victorious.”
“I think I must win with such a prospect.”
“I hope you will win in everything.”
When the ladies retired, Berengaria came and sate by the side of Lady Roehampton.
“What a dreary dinner!” she said.
“Do you think so?”
“Well, perhaps it was my own fault. Perhaps I am not in good cue, but everything seems to me to go wrong.”
“Things sometimes do go wrong, but then they get right.”
“Well, I do not think anything will ever get right with me.”
“Dear Lady Montfort, how can you say such things? You who have, and have always had, the world at your feet—and always will have.”