10 THE SILVER FOX 



Lady Susan, on the contrary, began to 

 find it a bore. 



*' Oh, look here, you people," she broke in, 

 " we can't sit here all day to listen to 

 Hughie being made more conceited than he 

 is. Come out and skate." 



She snatched Major Bunbury's plate from 

 before him, and put it down in front of an 

 expectant cat, flung a dinner napkin over 

 her husband's head, and fell to arranging 

 her fringe and veil at a looking-glass with 

 minute care and entire disregard of the 

 company. 



As Miss Morris walked after her cousin's 

 wife down the snowy path to the lake, she 

 framed with a confident touch the descrip- 

 tion that she would give of her to Mr. 

 Glasgow. Scarcely less confidently, and 

 with a comfortable sense of fore-knowledge 

 of his ideas and point of view, she formu- 

 lated the phrase in which he would give 

 his opinion of Lady Susan. It was satis- 

 factory to reflect that, though she was a 

 failure in Lady Susan's set, she found no 



