These rooms were usually given to the most honored
guests, those who rejoiced in titles, and on the occasions of her former
visits at Penrhyn, Lady Jane had occupied one, and her bosom friend, old
Lady Oakley, the other. But this time there was a change, and when Lady
Oakley arrived with her maid, and her poodle dog, and her ear trumpet,
for she was very deaf, she was assigned a room in one of the wings, her
hostess telling her apologetically that she had thought it well to put
the McPhersons together as they would thus get on better, and she was so
anxious for Lady Jane to like Mrs. Archie, the sweetest, most amiable of
women. Lady Oakley, who knew that every apartment at Penrhyn was like a
palace, cared little where she was put, and settled herself in her
quarters the evening before the London McPhersons were expected, Daisy
had been there a week or more, for she was prompt to the day. Their
funds were very low; they were owing seven pounds for lodgings in
London, besides various bills to the green-grocer, the dry-grocer, the
milkman, and the baker, and had barely enough to pay for their
second-class tickets from London.
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