"I thought she was everybody rolled into one." "Oh, Ethel doesn't know as much as she thinks she does," said Mrs.
Denning.

"I don't agree with lots of things she advises." "Then take my advice, mother." "Oh, Bryce, it is the best of all." "Bryce does not know about dress and such things, mother.

Ethel finds out what she does not know.

Bryce cannot go to modistes and milliners with me." "Well, Ethel does not pay as much attention as she might--she is always going somewhere or other with that Englishman, that she says is a relative--for my part, I doubt it." "Oh, mother!" "Girls will say anything, Dora, to hide a love affair.

Why does she never bring him here to call ?" "Because I asked her not.