She greeted them with enthusiasm or the reverse, according to her individual tastes.
"Really, Ingred, they don't seem to teach manners at the College now!" said Quenrede one day.
"The way you scowled at Mrs.Galsworthy and Gertrude was most uncivil.
You didn't look in the very least pleased to see them." "I wasn't! They're the most stupid people on the face of the earth! And they stayed such ages.

I thought they'd never go.

Just when I wanted a nice private talk with you and Mother before the boys came back.

Why should you look glad to see a person when you're not ?" "For the sake of manners, my dear!" "Then manners really mean humbug," declared Ingred, who loved to argue.
"To say you're glad to see people, when you're not, is telling deliberate fibs.

Most hypocritical, I call it! Why can't people tell the truth ?" "Because it would generally be offensive and unkind to do so," put in Mother, who happened to overhear.