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She left her card at different houses because he
told her to do so, but this social duty amused her immensely.
"It is like a game!" she declared, laughing, "some one comes and leaves
these little cards which explain who _they_ are, on _me_,--then I go and
leave _my_ little cards and yours, explaining who _we_ are on that some
one--and we keep on doing this, yet we never see each other by any
chance! It is so droll!"
Errington did not feel called upon to explain what was really the
fact,--namely, that none of the ladies who had left cards on his wife
had given her the option of their "at home" day on which to call,--he
did not think it necessary to tell her what he knew very well, that his
"set," both in county and town, had resolved to "snub" her in every
petty fashion they could devise,--that he had already received several
invitations which, as they did not include her, he had left
unanswered,--and that the only house to which she had as yet been really
asked in proper form was that of Lady Winsleigh.


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