"I wonder very much she doesn't go out; she's so handsome, really beautiful, considering her years, I think; and so very agreeable."
"I suppose she doesn't care," she answered, a little drily.
"But she complained of being lonely," I resumed, "and I thought she sighed when she spoke of my coming out, as if she would like a look at the gay world again."
"My dear, you bore me; I suppose Lady Lorrimer will do, with respect to that, as she does about everything else—precisely what pleases her best."
These words mamma spoke in a way that very plainly expressed: "Now you have heard, once for all, everything I mean to say on this subject; and you will be good enough to talk and think of something quite different."
