I really don't know what more you want.'
'You don't know Julia. You cannot read her face. She never forgets
anything, and is storing it up, and will pay me out for it sooner or
later.'
'My dear Emily, how can you say such things? I never heard---- She is
always ready to sacrifice herself for you.'
'You think so. She has a knack of pretending to be more unselfish than
another; but she is in reality intensely selfish.'
'All I can say is that it does not strike me so. I never saw any one give
way more good-humouredly than she did to-day.'
'I don't think that that is so wonderful, after all. She is only a paid
companion; and I do not see why she should go driving about the country
with you, and I be left at home.'
Hubert was somewhat shocked. The conversation paused.
'She gets on very well with men,' Emily said at last, breaking an
irritating silence somewhat suddenly. 'They say she is very good-looking.
Don't you think so?'
'Oh yes, she is certainly a pretty woman--or, I should say, a good-looking
woman. She is too tall to be what one generally understands as a pretty
woman.'
'Do you like tall women?'
At that moment the hunt appeared in the field at the bottom of the hill.
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