There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and Mrs. Mingott held out Ferrigiani's model to the banker. \"Ha! Beaufort, this is a rare favour!\" (She had an odd foreign way of addressing men by their surnames.)
\"Thanks. I wish it might happen oftener,\" said the visitor in his easy arrogant way. \"I'm generally so tied down; but I met the Countess Ellen in Madison Square, and she was good enough to let me walk home with her.\"
There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and Mrs. Mingott held out Ferrigiani's model to the banker. \"Ha! Beaufort, this is a rare favour!\" (She had an odd foreign way of addressing men by their surnames.)
\"Thanks. I wish it might happen oftener,\" said the visitor in his easy arrogant way. \"I'm generally so tied down; but I met the Countess Ellen in Madison Square, and she was good enough to let me walk home with her.\"
