Miss Reed sighed at the thought of such depravity.
'It's very sad,' she remarked, 'to think of such things happening to a fellow-creature.'...
'But what I can't understand,' said Mrs Gray, next morning, at the breakfast-table, 'is how she got into such a position. We all know that at one time she was to be seen in—well, in a very questionable place, at an hour which left no doubt about her—her means of livelihood. I must say I thought she was quite lost.'...
'Oh, well, I can tell you that easily enough,' replied her nephew. 'She's being kept by Sir Somebody Something, and he's running the show for her.'
'James, I wish you would be more careful about your language. It's not necessary to call a spade a spade, and you can surely find a less objectionable expression to explain the relationship between the persons.... Don't you remember his name?'
'No; I heard it, but I've really forgotten.'
'I see in this week's Tercanbury Times that there's a Sir Herbert Ously-Farrowham staying at the "George" just now.'
'That's it. Sir Herbert Ously-Farrowham.'
'How sad! I'll look him out in Burke.'
She took down the reference book, which was kept beside the clergy list.