"She drags Sir Evas into all kinds of queer things. He has really felt the strain of so much work. General Stone was hardly kind to make him the girl's guardian."
"He looked as if he enjoyed all the coming of age," said Edward Lang; to himself he added, "I don't mind relieving him of the burden of fifty thousand a year at all! Good heavens! the girl must be allowed to have her head at first, then she'll soon calm down."
"Dear Lady Dove," said Lady Southbourne, gently laying her pale lavender kid gloved hand on her hostess as a mark of sympathy, "young people will be young people, I daresay when you were young——"
"No indeed, I was brought up by a very particular mother, who knew what a young lady should be like."
"Ah! yes, those were indeed good old days!"
At this moment Toney rushed in again with breathless speed, and addressed herself to Mr. Lang.
"There! it's all right, and they have unfrozen, poor dears. It's strange, isn't it, how these stately English homes act like cold storage on people."
"Cold storage brings us excellent things from abroad."
"I'd rather come over warm! Gracious stars! I had a trouble to thaw them, but now they're sitting down to a proper meal."
"Are your friends Salvationists, Antonia, or did they come for begging purposes?" said Lady Dove.