We must ask her here to meet some of the County." "The County!" growled Mr.Jowett.

"Except for Elliot here, and the Hopes and the Tweedies and the Olivers, there are practically none of the old families left.

I tell you what it is--" But Mrs.Duff-Whalley had had enough for the moment of Mr.Jowett's conversation, so she nodded to Mrs.Jowett, and with an arch admonition to the men not to stay too long, she swept the ladies before her to the drawing-room..