She did not think it at all necessary to change her dress, or even to wash her face after her dusty drive.

But when dinner was announced, she went to the table as she had come into the house.

And she enjoyed her dinner as only a young person with a perfectly healthful and intensely sensual organization could.

She lingered long over her dessert of candied fruits, creams, jellies, and light wines.
And when the housekeeper came in at length with the strong black coffee, she made the woman sit down and gossip with her about London life.
While they were so employed, "the boy in buttons," whose duty it was to attend the street door and answer the bell, entered the room and said: "A gemman down stairs axing to see the missus.

I told 'im 'er was at dinner, and mussent be disturbed at meals, which 'e hanswered, and said as 'is business were most himportant, and 'e must see you whether or no, ma'am, which I beg yer parding for 'sturbing yer agin horders." "It will be a mon frae Johnnie Scott.