Captain Smithers, who fully shared the opinions of her American
cousins, took the beautiful invalid to drive with her, and made much of
her, and thought her the most charming person she had ever met, and
ended, as Daisy meant she should, by inviting her to spend the month of
August at Penrhyn Park.
"You will meet some very pleasant people," she said, "and I shall be
glad to introduce you to them. I shall ask Lady Jane McPherson and her
husband. It is a shame you have never met them. Lady Jane is rather
peculiar, but a very good woman, and you ought to know her."
This the kind-hearted and not very far-seeing Mrs. Smithers said,
because she had received the impression that the McPhersons of London
slighted the McPhersons of Stoneleigh, not so much for their poverty, as
for the fact that Daisy's family was not equal to their own.
"And this I think very absurd," she said to Daisy. "I belong to the
mercantile world, for my father is a Liverpool merchant, and at first
Smithers' mother and sisters were inclined to treat me coolly, though
they are very friendly now; so, you see, my dear, I know how it feels
not to be in perfect accord with one's family, and I mean to do my best
for you.
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