Arabella was a person of scrupulous honor.
She then proceeded to describe the party, and concluded with,
There is one American girl I like very much--perfectly natural and
bubbling with spirits, saying aloud everything she thinks, really
well educated and taking so much outdoor exercise that she has not
yet begun to have the nervous attacks that are such a distressing
feature of so many of her countrywomen. I am told it is their
climate. M. E. says it is because the men out there have always let
them have their own way. I should think so much smoking has something
to do with it.
John Derringham meanwhile had gone with his hostess and some of the rest
of the party, Mr. Hanbury-Green among them, to inspect the small golf
links Mrs. Cricklander was having constructed in the park. Her
country-house must be complete with suitable amusements. She had taken
all the Wendover shooting, too, and what she could get of Lord
Graceworth's beyond. "You cannot drag people into the wilds and then
bore them to death," she said. What she most enjoyed was to scintillate
to a company of two or three, and fascinate them all into a desire for a
_tete-a-tete_, and then, when with difficulty one had secured this
privilege, to be elusive and tantalize him to death.
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