She cried when I went to tea with her--a wedding visit if you please! I think it was because one of the kangaroos at Blenheim had just died in childbirth.

I told her it was a mercy, considering that any of them would hug us to death if they got a chance.

Are you a sentimentalist, Lady Constance ?" Mrs.Mulholland turned gaily to the girl beside her, but still with the same touch of something coolly observant in her manner.
Constance laughed.
"I never can cry when I ought to," she said lightly.
"Then you should go to tea with Mrs.Crabbett.She could train anybody to cry--in time.

She cultivates with care, and waters with tears, every sorrow that blows! Most of us run away from our troubles, don't we ?" Constance again smiled assent.

But suddenly her face stiffened.