“Sir John is a man of the world,” her aunt answered coldly. ‘Monstrously unfair of you, Hilary. Good-bye aunt. It seems he does not inherit the title. ’ ‘I imagine it must be a relief to you, after so lucky an escape. I hold a warrant from Mr. It was maddening to be made to feel that he was in any way the inferior of this cool, self-possessed young woman, whose eyes seemed for a moment to scintillate with scorn. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor of tobacco. Habits and tastes are no longer the same. Quite!” He sat in the arm-chair and took tea, and consumed several of the extra cakes which she had sent out for and talked to her and expressed himself, looking very earnestly at her with his deep-set eyes, and carefully avoiding any crumbs on his mustache the while. She visualized him as in a policeman’s uniform and quite impassive. The image did not move. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. Your reputation for hospitality would remain under a cloud though, for tea was distinctly mentioned.
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