It was only a few days, before that she had taken tea and spent an evening with her.

Not that Mrs.Grimes was deliberately hypocritical, but she had a free tongue, and, like too many in society, more cautious about what they said than she, much better pleased to see evil than good in a neighbour.

There are very few of us, perhaps, who have not something of this fault--an exceedingly bad fault, by the way.

It seems to arise from a consciousness of our own imperfections and the pleasure we feel in making the discovery that others are as bad, if not worse than we are.
Two days after Mrs.Comegys had called on Mrs.Markle to ask for explanations, the latter received a note in the following words: "MADAM .-- I have no doubt you have acted according to your own views of right in dropping as suddenly as you have done, the acquaintance of an old friend.

Perhaps, if you had called upon me and asked explanations, you might have acted a little differently.