How ridiculous to form a prejudice
against any one you have never even seen."
"If she had been the sort of woman I should like my wife to call upon,"
said Lawrence, "she wouldn't have allowed Mark to see her so often. A
woman who lives alone! Why on earth couldn't you leave her to stew in
her own juice? I don't wish to see my brother-in-law make an idiot of
himself."
"Anyhow," returned Carrissima, "it can't have been Mark's account that
set you against her."
"Oh, of course," exclaimed Lawrence, "Mark would swallow anything."
"It is his business in life," said Carrissima, with a laugh, "to make
other people swallow things, isn't it, Lawrence?"
He went away dissatisfied, and the following Monday afternoon Bridget
Rosser paid her first visit to Number 13, Grandison Square. Although
her movements were even and unhurried, her appearance in her
out-of-door garments was conspicuous. The brim of her hat struck
Carrissima as being a shade wider than that of any one else, her dress
closer about the ankles, while yet she wore it without a trace of
anything that could be called vulgarity.
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