43/62 The Dodgsons were _awfully_ annoyed with him, and Mrs.Dodgson had the bad taste to tell Mrs, Anstruther all about it. And what do you think _she_ said--'Lord Ventnor need not have been so frightened. My husband has not brought his hunting-crop with him!' "I was not there, but young Barker told me that Mrs.Anstruther looked very _impressive_ as she said this. 'Stunning!' was the word he used, but young Barker is a _fool_, and thinks Mrs.A. Her dress, they say, was _magnificent_, which I can hardly credit, as she usually goes about in the _plainest_ tailor-made clothes. |