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The second event which about this time made a little break in the monotony of the lives at Pinnerton Lodge came out of the first; for it was the result of much consideration on Lady Hebe's part as to what she could do to enliven things for these two girls, who seemed in a sense to have been thrown across her path.
She knew that it was useless to appeal to Lady Marth, her guardian's wife -- a woman who had deliberately narrowed her life and her sympathies by restricting all her interests to a small and very exclusive clique, which was the more to be regretted as she was naturally intelligent and quick of discernment, without the excuse of poor Lady Harriot Dunstan's intense native stupidity. But Hebe managed to have a good talk with Mrs Selwyn -- "Aunt Grace" -- the very morning after the Derwents' visit to Alderwood, and Aunt Grace's own interest in the new-comers being keen, she was delighted to find Hebe's enlisted on their behalf.