20/48 You never saw such an air!--all very quiet, of course. He buttoned his coat and got up to go, as though I were no more worth considering than the table. Neither he nor his precious grandfather need alarm themselves: I shan't trouble them as a visitor. If I shock them, they bore me--so we're quits. But owing to your charming system of keeping her away from us all her childhood, she's not likely to want." "You mean Mr.Wharton by the other man ?" said Mrs.Boyce, not defending herself or Aldous. |