One of the first things she had impressed on Joe Severance was that he must never inquire about her mail; but she always asked Farron about his.
He seemed to be thinking and didn't answer her.
Mathilde, now simply insatiable, pressed nearer to him and asked: "And what do you think of Mrs.Wayne ?" He raised his eyes from the envelope, and answered with a certain absence of tone: "I thought she was an elderly wood-nymph." Adelaide glanced over his shoulder, and, seeing that the letter had a printed address in the corner, lost interest.
"You may shut the house, Pringle," she said..