MRS. LAWTY. By the way, have you met the new doctor and his wife, Mrs.
Warren?
MRS. WARREN. Yes, I have called on Mrs. Hunter.
MRS. LAWTY. (_She sits down again_) Oh, really? How interesting.
MRS. WARREN. But, of course, Betty knows both of them. I must call on
Mrs. Hunter again. But I get out so seldom now ... so seldom. I am so
afraid to walk on the new ... pavement, I believe they call it. Betty is
very fond of them both ... the Hunters, I mean.
MRS. LAWTY. Quite ... though Mrs. Romney told Mrs. Pickering who told me
that the Hunters did not get along well together. It seems she is a
Church of England woman while the doctor is the son of a Scotch
Presbyterian, so of course----
MRS. WARREN. Though I believe they have been married all of five or six
years.
MRS. LAWTY. Oh, really, I did not know that. How interesting! I must
tell Mrs. Romney. But Mrs. Lawer told me that the doctor calls Mrs.
Hunter "Dearest" ... in public!
MRS. WARREN. Such poor taste.
MRS. LAWTY. I always suspect a man who is over-demonstrative ... in
public.