But Edith piqued herself on her dinner-parties; "so different," as she said, "from the old dowager dinners under mamma's rgime;" and Mrs. Shaw herself seemed to take exactly the same kind of pleasure in the very different arrangements and circle of acquaintances which were to Captain and Mrs. Lennox's taste, as she did in the more formal and ponderous entertainments which she herself used to give. 
Edith piqued herself on her dinner-parties; and