Directly she said this Heath looked slightly self-conscious.
"Have you heard from her?"
"This morning. She has made great friends with Susan Fleet."
"Oh, a woman we all like, who often helps Adelaide Shiffney with things."
"We all like," he repeated.
"A cliché! And indeed I scarcely know Susan Fleet. You see what an absurd close borough I live in, have always lived in. And I never thoroughly realized that till I met you."
"And I live in loneliness, outside of it all, of everything almost."
Lightly she answered:
"With Mrs. Shiffney and others holding open the door, holding up the lamp, and imploring you to come in, to come right in as they say on the other side of the Atlantic."