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"But I'm afraid your aunts might make it a little uncomfortable for her, if she tried to alter anything. I go my own way now, and don't mind but a young bride does not always like to be found fault with. She might find that relations-in-law are sometimes a little trying." Lady Mary felt, as she spoke these words, that she was somehow opening a way for herself as well as for Peter.
One of them remarked, drearily: "Henry's sister and her husband are to spend next Sunday with me." "Are they!" exclaimed the other. "And my husband's father and mother are to honor me by a visit on the same day." For a moment there was silence, then No. 1 said in an awed voice: "My dear, you and I need the prayers of the congregation. We are both objects of pity. Our relations-in-law are upon us!"
The cheque was, of course, Lilia's, who was extremely generous, and was quite willing to know anybody so long as she had not to live with them, relations-in-law being on her nerves. She liked nothing better than finding out some obscure and distant connection there were several of them and acting the lady bountiful, leaving behind her bewilderment, and too often discontent.
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