“Have you fixed up Grace Gillstow yet, Mrs Chilleywater?” Lord Tiredstock’s third son asked.
“She shall marry Baldwin: but not before she has been seduced first by Barnaby....”
“What are you talking about?” the Hon. ‘Eddy’ queried.
“Of Mrs Chilleywater’s forthcoming book.”
“Why should Barnaby get Grace—? Why not Tex!”
But Mrs Chilleywater refused to enter into reasons.
“She is looking for cowslips,” she said, “and oh I’ve such a wonderful description of a field of cowslips.... They make quite a darling setting for a powerful scene of lust.”
“So Grace loses her virtue!..!” Lord Tiredstock’s third son exclaimed.
“Even so she’s far too good for Baldwin: after the underhand shabby way he behaved to Charlotte, Kate, and Millicent!”
“Life is like that, dear,” the Ambassadress blandly observed.