setting-at-ease

Updated: June 1, 2025

"My mother is ill," explained John, when Clarence had greeted him also in his most setting-at-ease manner. But Clarence established himself friendlily in a third chair, and told Joy with charming masterfulness that she was to put down her work immediately and listen to him. "We're going to get up a Gilbert and Sullivan opera," said he. "Now it stands to reason that we have to have you.

Margaret Widdemer - The Wishing-Ring Man