"Kitty is much disappointed in the village."
"They are greater brutes than she thought?"
"Quite the contrary. There are no poachers—and no murders. The girls prefer to be married, and the Tranmores give so much away that no one has the smallest excuse for starvation. Kitty gets nothing out of them whatever."
"In the way of literary material?"
Mrs. Alcot nodded.
"Last week she was so discouraged that she was inclined to give up fiction and take to journalism."
"Heavens! Political?"
"Oh, la haute politique, of course."
"H'm. The wives of cabinet ministers have often inspired articles. I don't remember an instance of their writing them."
"Well, Kitty is inclined to try."