'Mrs.So and So, Miss Worthington, from Spring Bank, Kentucky,' then in an aside, which I am not supposed to hear, she adds, 'A great heiress, of a very respectable family.
You may have heard of them.' Somehow, this always makes me uncomfortable, as it brings up certain cogitations touching that scamp you were silly enough to marry, thereby giving me to the world, which my delectable brother no doubt thinks would have been better off without me.

How is Hugh?
And how is that Hastings woman?
Are you both as much in love with her as ever?
Well, so be it.

I do not know as she ever harmed me, and she did fit my dresses beautifully.

Even Mrs.Richards, who is a judge of such things, says they display so much taste, attributing it, of course, to my own directions.

I am so glad now that I forgot to send her letter, as I would not for the world have Adah in the Richards' family.