13/22 'I know this person, at any rate. Oh, is that you, Thomasson ?' Mr.Thomasson had fallen back a pace on Sir George's entrance; but being recognised he came forward. 'I think that you will acknowledge, my dear sir,' he said persuasively--and his tone was very different from that which he had taken ten minutes earlier--'that at any rate--they are not proper persons to sit down with her ladyship.' 'But why should they sit down with her ?' said Sir George the fashionable, slightly raising his eyebrows. |