'Adages are not to my taste, aunt.'
'Child, what makes you seem so cross to-day?'
'The weather, perhaps,' suggested Eveline.
But Olive, who had rather a mutinous expression in her soft face, remained silent.
'This is bad form in our day of joy,' said Lady Aberfeldie, who had been eyeing her closely. 'In society well-bred people always control their emotions—their feelings.'
'Easy enough for them, aunt.'
'How?'
'Because they have seldom any feelings to control.'
And to prevent more being said with reference to Allan—a subject she dreaded—Olive Raymond withdrew.