Beauty and the Beast - A Novel #223003

Lady Fermor gave no token of missing the girl who had been her companion for the last twenty years. The old lady awoke and breakfasted, read the newspapers or got Soames to read them to her, took her stroll on the terrace, ate her luncheon, had her afternoon drive, her nap, her dinner, her evening game of ecarte if Major Pollock dropped in, and, failing him, she condescended to a game at cribbage with Soames, retired to bed, and slept apparently without a care on her mind or a feathers weight on her conscience.