she is, and so are the van der Luydens, and so we all are, when it comes to being so much as brushed by the wing-tip of Reality.\" But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting.
\"Hang Countess Olenska! Don't be a goose, Janey—I'm not her keeper.\"
\"No; but you DID ask the Wellands to announce your engagement sooner so that we might all back her up; and if it hadn't
she is, and so are the van der Luydens, and so we all are, when it comes to being so much as brushed by the wing-tip of Reality.\" But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting.
\"Hang Countess Olenska! Don't be a goose, Janey—I'm not her keeper.\"
\"No; but you DID ask the Wellands to announce your engagement sooner so that we might all back her up; and if it hadn't
