To Kate, too, they were civil enough, and things, in public, went on very pleasantly at Matching.
A scene there was, of course, between Alice and Lady Midlothian;--a scene in private. "You must go through it," Lady Glencora had said, with jocose mournfulness; "and why should you not let her jump upon you a little? It can't hurt you now."
"But I don't like people to jump upon me," Alice said.

To Kate, too, they were civil enough, and things, in public, went on very pleasantly at Matching.
Of course there was a scene in private between Alice and Lady Midlothian.
"You must go through it," Lady Glencora had said, with joking mournfulness; "and why should you not let her jump upon you a little? It can't hurt you now."
"But I don't like people to jump upon me," Alice said.
