ide's

Updated: May 3, 2025

And then, although Miss Stanbury was intimate with the Frenches of Heavitree, with the Wrights of Northernhay, with the Apjohns of Helion Villa, a really magnificent house, two miles out of the city on the Crediton Road, and with the Crumbies of Cronstadt House, Saint Ide's, who would have been county people, if living in the country made the difference; although she was intimate with all these families, her manner to them was not the same, nor was it expected to be the same, as with those of her own acknowledged set.

Anthony Trollope - He Knew He Was Right

Ide's enquiry roused her: "It's all right?" "Oh, quite right. Perfectly. She can't come; but she's sending Susy Suffern. She says Susy will explain." After another silence she added, with a sudden gush of bitterness: "As if I needed any explanation!" She felt Ide's hesitating glance upon her. "She's in the country?" "Yes. 'Prevented last moment. Longing for you, expecting you.

Edith Wharton - Autres Temps...: 1916