And now this postponement will be one more trouble--all the engagements to alter, and the invitations.

_Really_! that girl." And Miss Raeburn broke off short, feeling simply that the words which were allowed to a well-bred person were wholly inadequate to her state of mind.
"But if she feels it--as you or I might feel such a thing about some one we knew or cared for, Agneta ?" "How can she feel it like that ?" cried Miss Raeburn, exasperated.

"How can she know any one of--of that class well enough?
It is not seemly, I tell you, Adelaide, and I don't believe it is sincere.

It's just done to make herself conspicuous, and show her power over Aldous.

For other reasons too, if the truth were known!" Miss Raeburn turned over the shirt she was making for some charitable society and drew out some tacking threads with a loud noise which relieved her.