6/34 It's splendid the ideas she has about this work, and the way she throws herself into it." "I dare say!" said Miss Raeburn, indignantly. "That's just what I object to. Why can't she throw herself into being in love with Aldous! That's her business, I imagine, just now--if she were a young woman like anybody else one had ever seen--instead of holding aloof from everything he does, and never being there when he wants her. Oh! I have no patience with her. But, of course, I must--" said Miss Raeburn, hastily correcting herself--"of course, I must have patience." "It will all come right, I am sure, when they are married," said Lady Winterbourne, rather helplessly. |