“I know her.”

“Lady Archie Brook?”

“Her, too.”

“I’ve also seen Lady Wrackley.”

“I have met Lady Wrackley, but I can hardly say I know her. Still, she shows her teeth at me when I come into a room where she is.”

“They are wonderful teeth, aren’t they?”

“Astonishing!”

“And they are her own—not by purchase.”

“Are you sure she doesn’t owe for them?”

“Positive; except, of course, to her Creator. Isn’t it wonderful to think that those three women are contemporaries of Lady Sellingworth?”