"He died last year." "I know.

I quarrelled with him.

I cannot conceive why Alice Wigram should do me a good turn!" Lady Dunstable threw back her head, her challenging look fixed upon her visitor.

Doris was certain she had it in her mind to add--"or you either!"-- but refrained.
"Lord Dunstable was always a friend to her father," said Doris, with the same slight emphasis on the "Lord" as before.

"And she felt for the estate--the poor people--the tenants." Rachel Dunstable shook her head impatiently.
"I daresay.