"Commonplace woman! A girl of that splendid family, with all that money and a title!"
"None of those things prevent her being commonplace," returned Regina calmly.
"You've never seen her, you don't know anything about her."
"Yes; she came here one day for a few minutes, about some business."
"You could not tell in that time what she was like."
"I saw her and talked to her. I should be very stupid if I could not tell then what sort of person she was."
Miss Lanark rocked herself backwards and forwards in her chair in silence.
"To think of my brother," she moaned, after a pause, "with all his wealth, his attainments, his opportunities, doing nothing with them—living in sin, like this!"
Regina leant back in her chair.