"
"What is she going to do? Who is going to stay with her?" asked Mrs.
Sequin. "Fancy a girl like that buried here in the country! Properly
dressed, and toned down a bit, she'd make a sensation. I shouldn't at
all mind asking her in to spend a few days with me sometime. You know
I adore young people, and poor Margery, like all the other last year
debutantes, is simply done for. Hasn't a spark of enthusiasm for
anything. I hope you have not forgotten the fact that your Constance
ought to come out this winter?"
"My dear Katherine," said the Doctor with an air of enforced patience,
"you do not seem to realize that my time and mind are engrossed in far
greater things than society. I hope in the next year to complete the
fifth and last volume of my 'History of the Norman Influence on
English Literature and Language.' If I have been able to give my
children very little of my time and attention, it is only because of
my desire to leave them something of far greater worth--a name that I
trust will stand among those of the foremost English scholars of my
day."
Mrs. Sequin soothed her irritation by studying her highly polished
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