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Do you advise me just to let the thing drop, then?" "No; be as kind as you like only don't assist them to destruction." "She goes into the country on Saturday for Whitsuntide, as we all do. Hector is going down to Bracondale alone." "That looks desperate. I shall see Hector, and judge for myself." "You must be sure to go to the ball at Harrowfield House to-night, then," Anne said.
Last night, whoever I spoke to had something vile to impute or insinuate about every one they mentioned; and Lady Harrowfield, with a record of her own worse than the lowest, rode a high horse of virtue, and was more spiteful than all the rest put together. I loathe them, the whole crew. What do they know of anything good or pure or fine? Painted Jezebels, the lot of them!"
Florence Devlyn, for instance, was no fit companion for her Florence Devlyn, whom he met at every decent house and had never before disapproved of, except as a bore and a sycophant. Harrowfield House, as every one knows, is one of the finest in London; and with the worst manners, and an inordinate insolence, Lady Harrowfield ruled her section of society with a rod of iron.
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