Of course Lady Dunstable carries off all the honours.

But then everybody believes she spends all the mornings preparing these things.

She never comes down till nearly lunch." "This is really appalling!" said Doris, with round eyes.

"I have forgotten everything I ever knew." As for her own impressions of the great lady, she had only seen her once in the semi-darkness of the lecture-room, and could only remember a long, sallow face, with striking black eyes and a pointed chin, a general look of distinction and an air of one accustomed to the "chief seat" at any board--whether the feasts of reason or those of a more ordinary kind.
As the days went on, Doris, for all her sturdy self-reliance, began to feel a little nervous inwardly.

She had been quite well-educated, first at a good High School, and then in the class-rooms of a provincial University; and, as the clever daughter of a clever doctor in large practice, she had always been in touch with the intellectual world, especially on its scientific side.