Have you never noticed how different she is when he is here, so gay and talkative, and when we are alone she hardly says a word for days together, except to the children ?" "She talked more when she first came," said Mr.Gresley.

"But when she found I made it a rule to discourage argument"-- (by argument Mr.Gresley meant difference of opinion)--"she seemed gradually to lose interest in conversation.

Yet I have heard the Bishop speak of her as a brilliant talker.

And Lord Newhaven asked me last spring how I liked having a celebrity for a sister.

A celebrity! Why, half the people in Middleshire don't even know of Hester's existence." And the author of "Modern Dissent" frowned.
"That was a hit at you, my dear," said Mrs.Gresley.