"Well, I wanted her to run down and entertain me a little, now that she can get away."
"It would be rather a sacrifice for her to leave town just at the beginning of the season."
"That's it. She has such hosts of engagements—always going out somewhere. She tells me she thinks nothing of five theatres in one week."
Miss Batchelor raised her eyebrows.
"She must be very much stronger than she was at Thorneytoft."
"She's never been so well in her life. Thorneytoft didn't agree with her at all. She's been a different woman since they left it." (This to guard against any suspicion of an attraction in the neighborhood.) "Nevill was never well there either."
"I never thought it would suit Mr. Tyson."
"No; it wasn't the life for him at all. He's got too much go in him to settle down anywhere in the country. Look how he's roamed about the world." (Now was her opportunity.) "You know, Miss Batchelor, there's a great deal of nonsense talked about this separation."
"There's a great deal of nonsense talked about most things in this place."
"Well—but really, if you think of it, what is there to talk about? He's just gone away in a huff, and—and he'll come back in another. You'll see. He has a very peculiar temper, has Nevill; and Molly's too—too suscept—too emotional. People can't always hit it off together."