But here he thought that they
would be a little surprised, that it would be to them England over
again, and for a few hours they would fancy themselves in some old
mansion there. He felt that to hear them say this would make his cup of
satisfaction brim over, and this in some unintentional way he expected
to draw from them.
"It's very warm," said his wife panting a little, "and, after all, I
need not have hurried; nobody has come yet, or will come this half-hour,
I dare say."
"Stephen is always prompt," suggested the Colonel, pausing in his
measured walk to glance down the road.
"Yes, but then there are the English people. To be sure, they fall into
our ways as if they had been born here, and Lady Dacre is as easy as an
old shoe."
"My dear," said her husband, "I hope that is not the phraseology you are
going to indulge in before our guests." Madam Archdale laughed.
"It would not shock them half as much as it does you," she answered. "I
heard Sir Temple say the very thing the other day, and you would think
of it yourself if you had on a pair of new slippers, as I have." The
Colonel waived discussion, and took up another part of her answer.
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