Since then he
had been hanging to the establishment as it were by a hair. He
gave the impression of being always on the point of giving notice.
There were so many things connected with his position of which he
disapproved. He had made no official pronouncement of the matter,
but Lady Wetherby knew that he disapproved of her classical
dancing. His last position had been with the Dowager Duchess of
Waveney, the well-known political hostess, who--even had the
somewhat generous lines on which she was built not prevented the
possibility of such a thing--would have perished rather than dance
barefooted in a public restaurant. Wrench also disapproved of
America. That fact had been made plain immediately upon his
arrival in the country. He had given America one look, and then
his mind was made up--he disapproved of it.
'If you please, m'lady!'
Lady Wetherby turned. The butler was looking even more than
usually disapproving, and his disapproval had, so to speak,
crystallized, as if it had found some more concrete and definite
objective than either barefoot dancing or the United States.
'If you please, m'lady--the hape!'
It was Wrench's custom to speak of Eustace in a tone of restrained
disgust. He disapproved of Eustace. The Dowager Duchess of
Waveney, though she kept open house for members of Parliament,
would have drawn the line at monkeys.
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