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"What have you been doing?" she asked gently. "It isn't so much what I have been doing as what I have been feeling. I found myself actually liking Lady Silverhampton, simply because she is a countess; and I was positively rude to a man I know, called Edgar Ford, because he lives at the East End and dresses badly.
And that's the way with my jokes; when they have been all round London and come home to roost, I serve them up to Silverhampton as quite fresh." "And he believes in their freshness? How sweet and confiding of him!" "He never listens to them, so it is all the same to him whether they're fresh or not.
Sedgehill High Street is nothing but a part of the great high road which leads from Silverhampton to Studley and Slipton and the other towns of the Black Country; but it calls itself Sedgehill High Street as it passes through the place, and so identifies itself with its environment, after the manner of caterpillars and polar bears and other similarly wise and adaptable beings.
Her heart was thumping like the great hammer at the Osierfield, and she was trembling all over. So she held her peace as they drove up the principal street of Silverhampton and across the King's Square to the lych-gate of St. Peter's Church; but Alan, looking into the tell-tale face he knew so well, was quite content. Yet as she sat beside Alan in St.
So it came to pass, one never-to-be-forgotten summer afternoon, that Alan Tremaine drove Elisabeth Farringdon into Silverhampton to hear the Bishop of Merchester preach.
"Lady Silverhampton presented me," remarked Elisabeth, "so I always feel a sort of god-daughterly respect for her, which enhances the pleasure of abusing her." "What does it feel like to go to Court? Does it frighten you?" "Oh, dear! no. It would do, I daresay, if you were in plain clothes; but trains and feathers make fine birds with all the manners and habits of fine birds.
Whenever I go out to dinner I always say in an aside to my host, 'Not Lady Silverhampton; anything but that. And the consequence is I never do go in to dinner with you. It isn't disagreeableness on my part; if I could I'd do it for your sake, and put my own inclination on one side; but I simply can't bear the intellectual strain.
Did you forget?" Elisabeth endeavoured to simulate the sudden awakening of a dormant memory. "So it is!" "I see no reason why you should not go into Silverhampton to hear the Bishop," said Miss Farringdon kindly. "I like young people to learn the faith once delivered to the saints, from all sorts and conditions of teachers; but I shall feel it my duty to be in my accustomed place."
Peter's Church, in Silverhampton, on St. Peter's Day, and I have asked Alan Tremaine to drive me over in his dog-cart to hear him." Although she had strayed from the old paths of dogma and doctrine, Elisabeth could not eradicate the inborn Methodist nature which hungers and thirsts after righteousness as set forth in sermons.
"I'm a little tired to-day," Lady Silverhampton said. "I was taken in to dinner by an intelligent man last night." "Then how came he to do it?" Lord Robert wondered. "Don't be rude, Bobby: it doesn't suit your style; and, besides, how could he help it?" "Well enough.
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