Almost instantaneously Linda was aware that she would visit the Lowries.
She liked the letter extremely, as well as all that she remembered of
its sender. At the same time she prepared for a scene with her mother,
different from those of the past--with the recourse to the brandy
flask--but no less unpleasant. They had very little to say to each other
now; and, when she went into her mother's room with an evident definite
purpose, the latter showed a constrained surprise, a palpable annoyance
that her daughter had found her at the daily renovation of her worn
face.