The things we do!

If Ethel makes for
her uncle purses, guard-chains, antimacassars, and the like beautiful and
useful articles, I believe it is in reality Miss Quigley who does
four-fifths of the work, as she sits alone in the schoolroom, high, high
up in that lone house, when the little ones are long since asleep, before
her dismal little tea-tray, and her little desk containing her mother's
letters and her mementos of home.
There are, of course, numberless fine parties in Park Lane, where the
Colonel knows he would be very welcome. But if there be grand assemblies,
he does not care to come. "I like to go to the club best," he says to
Lady Anne. "We talk there as you do here about persons, and about Jack
marrying, and Tom dying, and so forth. But we have known Jack and Tom all
our lives, and so are interested in talking about them. Just as you are
in speaking of your own friends and habitual society. They are people
whose names I have sometimes read in the newspaper, but whom I never
thought of meeting until I came to your house.


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