Two Countries

Lady Chasemore reflected with pleasure that it was in her brothers power to do the honours of his native land very completely. She suspected, indeed, that as he didn't like her husband (he couldn't like him, in spite of Sir Rufus's now demeaning himself so sweetly), it was a relief to him to pass him on to others--to work him off, as it were, into penitentiaries and chambers of commerce. Sir Rufus's frequent expeditions to these establishments, and long interviews with local worthies of every kind, kept him constantly out of the house, and removed him from contact with his host, so that as Macarthy was extremely busy with his own profession.