15/24 She was never quite at ease in Mrs.Duff-Whalley's company. Incapable of an unkind thought or a bitter word, so refined as to be almost inaudible, she felt jarred and bumped in her mind after a talk with that lady, even as her body would have felt after bathing in a rough sea among rocks. Realising that the conversation had taken an unfortunate turn, she tried to divert it into more pleasing channels. Our dear old dog, Rover, had to be put away. He was sixteen, very deaf and rather cross, and the Vet. |