"No."

"Oh! you mean Kitty? Yes, I had forgotten her for the moment. Yes, poor
child."

There was silence a moment, then Lord Grosville inquired:

"What do you think of her?"

"I?" said Ashe, with a laugh. "I don't know. She's obviously very
pretty--"

"And a handful!" said Lord Grosville.

"Oh, quite plainly a handful," said Ashe, rather absently. Then the
memory of Kitty's entry recurred to them both, and they laughed.

"Not much shyness left in that young woman--eh?" said the old man. "She
tells my girls such stories of her French doings--my wife's had to stop
it. She seems to have had all sorts of love-affairs already. And, of
course, she'll have any number over here--sure to. Some unscrupulous
fellow'll get hold of her, for naturally the right sort won't marry her.
I don't know what we can do. Adelina offered to take her altogether. But
that woman wouldn't hear of it. She wrote Lina rather a good letter--on
her dignity--and that kind of thing. We gave her an opening, and, by
Jove! she took it."

"And meanwhile Lady Kitty has no dealings with her step-sister?"