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CHAPTER THEN FANCY SHAPES
'
On
III.
—AS FANCY
day about three weeks
a
Swancourt
trio
were
CAN.'
the
later,
sitting quietly in the
drawing-room of the Crags, Mrs. Swancourt's house at Endelstow, chatting,
taking
easeful
month
or two of
ness
survey of their
town
—a
and
previous
tangible weari-
even to people whose acquaintances
there might be counted on the fingers.
A
mere season
practised
in
stepmother
London with her had
so
advanced
Elfride's perceptions, that her courtship
by
Stephen seemed emotionally meagre, and to have drifted back several years into a childish
past.
experiences,
In
regarding our mental
as in visual observation,
our
