They received the colonel's wife in their own hotels--"Why," wrote a great lady to Miss Crawley, who had bought her lace and trinkets at the Duchess's own price, and given her many a dinner during the pinching times after the Revolution--"Why does not our dear Miss come to her nephew and niece, and her attached friends in Paris? 
"Why," wrote a great lady to Miss Crawley, in French, "Why does not our dear Miss come to her nephew and niece in Paris? 