The mutual galvanic shock might be continued at the next meeting,--and so on.

They had seen the tragedy together and it would not fail to be a bond of union.

As she told the tragedy to her mother, she delicately laid aside her hat and whip and riding dress, and then asked whether it was not possible that they might prolong their stay at Rufford.

"But the Gores, my dear! I put them off, you know, for two days only." Then Arabella declared that she did not care a straw for the Gores.
In such a matter as this what would it signify though they should quarrel with a whole generation of Gores?
For some time she thought that she would not come down again that afternoon or even that evening.

It might well be that the sight of the accident should have made her too ill to appear.