As for the Duchess's attack upon her, Chloe smarted.

The Duchess had clearly pulled her up, and Chloe was not a person who took it well.
If Roger's American wife was by now wildly jealous of his old _fiancee_, whose fault was it?
Had not Mrs.Barnes herself thrown them perpetually together?
Dinners at Upcott!--invitations to Heston!--a resolute frequenting of the same festal gatherings with Mrs.Fairmile.None of it with Roger's goodwill, or his mother's,--Chloe admitted it.

It had been the wife's doing--all of it.

There had been even--rare occurrences--two or three balls in the neighbourhood.

Roger hated dancing, but Daphne had made him go to them all.