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"He did. He also was afraid that he might have been 'too fresh." answered Betty. "On our part," said Mr. Penzance, with gentle glee, "we hesitated a moment in fear lest we also might appear to be 'butting in." Then they all laughed together. They were laughing when Lady Anstruthers entered, and she herself joined them.
"Orders are not necessary," Betty replied. "The day is past when one rushed to smooth pillows and give the wrong medicine when one's friends were ill. If one is not a properly-trained nurse, it is wiser not to risk being very much in the way." He spoke over her shoulder, dropping his voice, though Lady Anstruthers sat apart, appearing to read. "Don't think I am fool enough not to understand.
"You are very interesting at all events, and the Anstruthers will exult in you. If they are dull in the country, you will save them." "I am very interested, at all events," said Bettina, "and interest like mine is quite passe. Their enthusiasm amused people, but now, you see, it has become vieux jeu.
And when an invitation came from Mrs. Anstruthers Leason to dinner and her box at the French opera, Bessie was sure that she had found her sphere. Falkner seemed to Bessie these days to be growing harder, he was "exacting," "unsympathetic," "tyrannical." "He won't go places, and he won't have people, isn't nice to them, even in his own house," Bessie said sadly to Isabelle.
"Let us sit down and talk about it." "There is nothing much to talk about. This is it " taking in the room with a wave of her hand. "I am it. Ughtred is it." "Then let us talk about England," was Bettina's light skim over the thin ice. A red spot grew on each of Lady Anstruthers' cheek bones and made her faded eyes look intense.
One's invitation must convey by inference that one was either brilliant, beautiful, or admirable, if not important. Nigel Anstruthers had never appeared at what the uninvited were wont, with derisive smiles, to call The Great Panjandrum Function which was an ironic designation not employed by such persons as received cards bidding them to the festivity.
After the marriage the firm had found the situation confusing and un-English. There had been trouble with Sir Nigel, who had plainly been disappointed. At first it had appeared that the American magnate had shown astuteness in refraining from leaving his son-in-law a free hand. Lady Anstruthers' fortune was her own and not her husband's. Mr.
"He will make it, or dig it up, or someone will leave it to him. There is a great deal of money in the world, and when a strong creature ought to have some of it he gets it." "Oh, Betty!" said Rosy. "Oh, Betty!" "Watch that man," said Betty; "you will see. It will come." Lady Anstruthers' mind, working at no time on complex lines, presented her with a simple modern solution.
But a man who cannot afford to return hospitalities will find that he need not expect to avail himself of those of his acquaintances to the end of his career unless he is an extremely engaging person. Sir Nigel Anstruthers was not an engaging person. He never gave a thought to the comfort or interest of any other human being than himself.
The drawing-room door was open, and Mrs. Brent was standing near it saying some last words to Lady Anstruthers before leaving the house, after a visit evidently made with an object. This Betty gathered from the solemnity of her manner. "Betty," said Lady Anstruthers, catching sight of her, "do come in for a moment." When Betty entered, both her sister and Mrs. Brent looked at her questioningly.
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