“Oh, there’s the hard court!” Lady Sellingworth said.
“Yes.”
“It looks a beauty.”
“Do you play?”
“I used to. But I have given it up.”
After a silence she added:
“You know I have given up everything. There comes a time—”
She hesitated.
“Perhaps you will not believe it, but I feel very strange here with all these people.”
“But you know them all, don’t you?”