Chapter 25
A PATRON OF CHARITY Lady Sybil Crotin was not a popular woman. She was conscious that she had married beneath her--more conscious lately that there had been no necessity to make the marriage, and she had grown a little soured. She could never mix with the homely wives of local millionaires; she professed a horror of the vulgarities with which she was surrounded, hated and loathed her lord and master's flamboyant home, which she described as something between a feudal castle and a picture-palace; and openly despised her husband's friends and their feminine relatives. She made a point of spending at least six months of the year away from Yorkshire, and came back with protest at her lot written visibly upon her face. A thin, angular woman, with pale green eyes and straight, tight lips, she
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