Then Mrs. Holman, seeing her standing there, bore down upon her. Of
course a thing like a dress was beneath Mrs. Holman's notice,
Cheap Newport Cigarettes, with her
family always tumbling downstairs or having the scarlet fever. Could
Mabel tell her if Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September? Oh,
Marlboro Gold,
it was a conversation that bored her unutterably,
Newport Red 100!--it made her furious
to be treated like a house agent or a messenger boy, to be made use of.
"So impossible to keep boys quiet"--that was the kind of thing one said.
They
petered out respectably in seaside resorts; every watering-place had one
of her aunts even now asleep in some lodging with the front windows not
quite facing the sea.