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Updated: May 19, 2025
She was knitting that day, finishing a pair of socks for her father, who expected her to keep up the supply dutifully. She hated knitting, and, as she was just at the heel part, she had to keep her eyes on her needles. "Of course it isn't as if he had a son to provide for," Captain Hagberd went on a little vacantly. "Girls, of course, don't require so much h'm-h'm.
The speaker was Lord Mountclere's trusty valet, and the conversation was between him and the viscount in a dressing-room at Enckworth Court, on the evening after the meeting of archaeologists at Corvsgate Castle. 'H'm-h'm; the daughter of a butler. Does Mrs. Doncastle know of this yet, or Mr. Neigh, or any of their friends? 'No, my lord. 'You are quite positive? 'Quite positive.
'Then where did she get her manners and education? Do you know? 'I do not, my lord. I suppose she picked 'em up by her wits. 'Never mind what you suppose, said the old man impatiently. 'Whenever I ask a question of you tell me what you know, and no more. 'Quite so, my lord. I beg your lordship's pardon for supposing. 'H'm-h'm. Have the fashion-books and plates arrived yet?
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