Clara Greeby made the remark.

You see, Noel loved Agnes before she married Hubert, and I believe he loves her still, which isn't right, seeing she's married, and isn't half so good-looking as she was.

And Noel stopping at that cottage in the Abbot's Wood painting in water-colors.

I think he is, but I'm not sure if it isn't in oils, and the--" "Well?
Well?
Well ?" asked Mrs.Belgrove again.
"It isn't well at all, when you think what a tongue Clara Greeby has," snapped Lady Garvington.

"She said if Noel came to see Agnes by night, Garvington, taking him for a burglar, might shoot him.