If you stay we'll have her to dinner to-morrow.' 'I wonder whether we shall get along ?' Alice mused.
'I don't see why not.

You'll get lots of things from her, little notions of all kinds.' This is always a more or less dangerous form of recommendation, even in talking to one's sister.

To suggest that Adela would benefit by the acquaintance would have been a far more politic procedure.
'What's wrong with me ?' Alice inquired, still depressed by the scene she had gone through.
'Oh, there's nothing wrong.

It's only that you'll see differences at first; from the people you've been used to, I mean.

But I think you'll have to go and get your things on; it's nearly five.' In Alice's rising from her chair there was nothing of the elasticity that had marked her before luncheon.