them; I will not have them in my house."

"The Measons are quite as good as we are, father. They may be poor,
but as far as family goes--"

"You are just the same as the others, Maggie; once there is a young
man to flirt with, you don't care what he is or where he comes from.
When there are no young men, you will snub the old ladies fast enough;
and as for Sally, she is downright rude. I didn't want to see the
haberdashers, but while they were in my house I was polite to them."

"It was the Horlocks who told them to call."

"I know it was. If Mrs. Horlock likes to know these people, let her
know them; but what does she want to force them upon us for? That's
what I want to know. We might never have known any one in the
Southdown Road; I mean we never should, we never could have known any
one in the Southdown Road if Mrs. Horlock hadn't come to live there.
We had to call upon her."

"Every Viceroy in India called upon her. She was the only woman whom
every Viceroy did call upon."

"I know she was. Of course we had to call upon her. Most interesting
woman; the General is very nice, too. I like them exceedingly. I often
go to see them, although the smell of that mastiff is more than I can
bear in the hot weather, especially if lilies or strong smelling
flowers are in the room."

"She feeds the mice, she won't let them be destroyed, she lets the