hundred years hence. But tell me, have you noticed--no, you notice
nothing--"

"Yes, I do; what do you want me to say, that she is looking very ill?
I can't help it if she is. I've quite enough troubles of my own
without thinking of other people's. I'm sure I am very sorry. I wish
she'd never met the fellow."

"That's what I say, I wish she'd never met the fellow, and she never
would had it not been for that horrible Southdown Road. Southwick has
never been the same since those villas were put up."

"I know nothing about them; I won't know them. I don't go to the
Horlocks because I may meet people there I don't want to know. If you
hadn't allowed the girls to go there, she never would have met him."

"But we had to call on the Horlocks. Every Viceroy that ever came to
India called upon her, and they're excellent people--titled people
come down from London to see them: but I daresay their banking
accounts wouldn't bear looking into. She walks about the green with
the chemist's wife, and has the people of the baths to dinner.
Mostextraordinary woman. I like her, I enjoy her society; but I can't
follow her in her opinions. She says that only men are bad; that all
animals are good; that it is only men who make them bad. Her views on
hydrophobia are most astonishing. She says it is a mild and easy
death, and sees no reason why the authorities should attempt to stamp
it out. She quite frightened me with the story she told me of a mad
dog that died in her arms. But that by the way. The point is not now
whether she is right to feed mice in her bedroom instead of getting
rid of them, but whether we should call on people we don't want to