But immediately, while rapidly greeting her acquaintances, and shaking the hands proffered to her, she addressed Princess Betsy: "I have been at Countess Lidia's, and meant to have come here earlier, but I stayed on.
Sir John was there.
He's very interesting.
" "Oh, that's this missionary?" "Yes; he told us about the life in India, most interesting things.
" The conversation, interrupted by her coming in, flickered up again like the light of a lamp being blown out.