Now he felt no inclination to hazard a call upon Lady Ogram; he would return to London forthwith.
"No bad news, I hope ?" said his father, when this purpose was announced.
"Mrs.Woolstan wants me back sooner than I expected, that's all." His mother's lips curled disdainfully.

To be at the beck and call of a Mrs.Woolstan, seemed to her an ignoble thing.

However, she had learnt the tenor of Dyce's discourse of the evening before, and tried once more to see a radiance in his future..