"You could easily learn some of them," said Anne, "and that would greatly please Mrs Trefusis."
"Could you tell me of anything in especial?"
"Well! For instance—I don't mind myself in the least—but it would be better not to call me 'Lady Varney.'"
"I did not know you would like me to call you 'Anne.'"
"You are quite right. We do not know each other well enough."
"Then what ought I to call you?"
"My friends call me 'Lady Anne.'"
"Dear me!" said Janet, astonished. "There's Lady Alice Thornton. She married Mr Thornton, our member. Fred sold him a hunter. And she is sometimes called 'Lady Alice Thornton' and sometimes 'Lady Thornton.' Mrs Smith says——"
"Then," continued Anne, who seemed indisposed to linger on the subject, "it would please Mrs Trefusis if you came into a room with more courage."