Excerpt from At Home, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel
Probably it was owing to this unacknowledged speculation that her toilet was so carefully attended to on the morning after Lady Cole raine’s ball: she found, too, in the course of the day, a variety of reasons for preferring the front drawing-room to her usual favourite, the library; and even in cutting her pencils, repairing her pens, and performing such other little operations as required the immediate light of the window, she took more time than they generally occupied all which was no doubt occasioned by the evident abstraction of her thoughts.
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