'Oh, she may come!' This last in a voice that promised little comfort for the maid.
'And if the reverend gentleman--would put up with a couch below stairs ?' 'Yes, yes,' said Mr.Thomasson; but faintly, now it came to the point.
'Then I think I can manage--if your ladyship will not object to sup with some guests who have just arrived, and are now sitting down?
Friends of Sir George Soane,' the landlord hastened to add, 'whom your ladyship probably knows.' 'Drat the man!--too well!' Lady Dunborough answered, making a wry face.
For by this time she had heard all about the duel.

'He has nearly cost me dear! But, there--if we must, we must.

Let me get my tooth in the dinner, and I won't stand on my company.' And she proceeded to descend, and, the landlord going before her, entered the house.
In those days people were not so punctilious in certain directions as they now are.

My lady put off her French hood and travelling cloak in the lobby of the east wing, gave her piled-up hair a twitch this way and that, unfastened her fan from her waist, and sailed in to supper, her maid carrying her gloves and scent-bottle behind her.

The tutor, who wore no gloves, was a little longer.