Alice found her friend in the small breakfast-room up-stairs, sitting close by the window. They had not as yet met since the evening of Lady Monk's party, nor had Lady Glencora seen Alice in the mourning which she now wore for her grandfather. "Oh, dear, what a change it makes in you," she said. "I never thought of your being in black."
"I don't know what it is you want, but shan't I do in mourning as well as I would in colours?"
"You'll do in anything, dear. But I have so much to tell you, and I don't know how to begin. And I've so much to ask of you, and I'm so afraid you won't do it."
"You generally find me very complaisant."

Alice found her friend in the small breakfast-room upstairs, sitting by the window. They had not met since the evening of Lady Monk's party, nor had Lady Glencora seen Alice in the mourning which she now wore for her grandfather.
"Oh, dear," she said. "I never thought of your being in black."
"I don't know what you want, but shan't I do in mourning as well as I would in colours?"
"You'll do in anything, dear. But I have so much to tell you. 