you'd better come down. You don't seem to understand how mother feels.\"
In the drawing-room Newland found his mother. She raised a troubled brow from her needlework to ask: \"Has Janey told you?\"
\"Yes.\" He tried to keep his tone as measured as her own. \"But I can't take it very seriously.\"
\"Not the fact of having offended cousin Louisa and cousin Henry?\"
\"The fact that they can be offended by such a trifle as Countess
you'd better come down. You don't seem to understand how mother feels.\"
In the drawing-room Newland found his mother. She raised a troubled brow from her needlework to ask: \"Has Janey told you?\"
\"Yes.\" He tried to keep his tone as measured as her own. \"But I can't take it very seriously.\"
\"Not the fact of having offended cousin Louisa and cousin Henry?\"
\"The fact that they can be offended by such a trifle as Countess
