Geoffrey's ejaculation for instance when she had invited him to her sitting-room after breakfast that he might look for a book he had lent her--"My word, Helena, what a jolly place!--Why, this was the old school-room--I remember it perfectly--the piggiest, shabbiest old den.

And Philip has had it all done up for you?
Didn't know he had so much taste!" And then, Geoffrey's roguish look at her, expressing the "chaff" he restrained for fear of offending her.

Lucy Friend, too, Captain Lodge, Peter--everybody--no one had any sympathy with her.

And lastly, Donald himself--coward!--had refused to play up.

Not that she cared one straw about him personally.
She knew very well that he was a poor creature.