The things we do!

"
"Very likely, very likely," cried the Colonel, hurriedly, "I hope she is
improved, with all my heart. I am sure there was room for it. Gentlemen,
shall we go up to the ladies and have some coffee?" And herewith the
colloquy ended, and the party ascended to the drawing-room.
The party ascended to the drawing-room, where no doubt both the ladies
were pleased by the invasion which ended their talk. My wife and the
Colonel talked apart, and I saw the latter looking gloomy, and the former
pleading very eagerly, and using a great deal of action, as the little
hands are wont to do, when the mistress's heart is very much moved. I was
sure she was pleading Ethel's cause with her uncle.
So indeed she was. And Mr. George, too, knew what her thoughts were.
"Look at her!" he said to me. "Don't you see what she is doing? She
believes in that girl whom you all said Clive took a fancy to before he
married his present little placid wife; a nice little simple creature,
who is worth a dozen Ethels.


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