"
"She teaches him, I believe; but there's another instance of her
strange ways. She was absolutely vexed when Lady Tyrrell took him
into the house, though he was her protege, only because it was not
done in _her_ way. It is a great trial to Camilla."
"I could fancy a reason for that," said Rosamond. "Julius does not
like the tone of the household at all." But she added hastily, "Who
could those children be? They did not look _quite_ like poor
children."
"Ah! she is always taking up with some odd person in her own away,"
said Cecil. "But here we are. Will you drive on to the hotel, or
get out here?"
When, at the end of two hours, the sisters-in-law met at the work-
room, and Rosamond had taken a survey of the row of needle-women,
coming up one by one to give their work, be paid and dismissed,
there was a look of weariness and vexation on Cecil's face. She had
found it less easy to keep order and hinder gossip, and had hardly
known how to answer when that kind lady, Mrs. Miles Charnock, had
been asked after; but she would have scorned to allow that she had
missed her assistant, and only politely asked how Rosamond had sped.
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