Mark Driver, for instance, always showed a tendency to
something more than tolerance, and even Carrissima Faversham, in spite
of a manifestly unfavourable bias, strove to hold the balance even. It
was her brother Lawrence who took the most adverse view; insisting that
Miss Rosser was neither more nor less than an adventuress--"a pretty
woman on the make" was his expression, uttered, it is true, before he
had an opportunity of seeing her face.
Her entrance on the scene was heralded by Mark Driver one evening
towards the end of March, when he had accepted an invitation to dine
with his sister and Lawrence in Charteris Street, S.W.
Carrissima's maid found her so exacting that evening, that she might
have been going to an important party, instead of merely to a quiet
dinner with her brother and his wife; but then, expecting Mark to make
a fourth, she wished to look her very best, and flattered herself she
had succeeded.
Although she sometimes longed for the power to add a few inches to her
stature, she realized that she had already much to be thankful for.
Suppose, for example, that her eyebrows had been as fair as her hair,
or even worse, her eyelashes, which as it happened were satisfactorily
black.
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