'His consolation to you for yours. That is the gentleman. Chummy doesn't change. Say, why not St. Ombre? He's cool.'
'There are reasons.'
'Let them rest. And I have my reasons. Do the same for them.'
'Yours concern the honour of the family.'
'Deeply: respect them.'
'Your relatives have to be thought of, though they are few and not too pleasant.'
'If I had thought much of them, what would our relations be? They object to dicing, and I to leading strings.'
She turned to a brighter subject, of no visible connection with the preceding.
'Henrietta comes in May.'
'The month of her colours.'