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Her yearly visit, always fixed and announced by herself, was a time of trial both for him and his mother, but they endured it out of a sentimental and probably mistaken belief that the late Lord Tatham had in her youth borne her a cousinly affection. Lady Barbara was a committee-woman, indefatigable, and indiscriminate.
The light slowly dawned on my amazed intelligence. Could this this be the formidable, grey-haired woman, with whom I had been expecting, and somewhat dreading, sooner or later, an encounter? Could this be the spectacled Committee-woman the rampant bicyclist the corrupter of the youth of Tabitha?
"As according to him there is none," laughed Graham, "I cannot see where the punishment comes in." "Oh, he may say so in that book," said Mrs. Montagu Samuels, an amiable, loose-thinking lady of florid complexion, who dabbled exasperatingly in her husband's philanthropic concerns from the vain idea that the wife of a committee-man is a committee-woman. "But he knows better."
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