Prudence remained rooted to the spot; really, there was no other way to describe it. That he should even have heard of Coventry Patmore! And then to quote those lines, those telling lines. What was it he had said? Just your cup of tea, I should think….What exactly did he mean by that? It sounded almost as if he had studied her and thought about her and what her tastes were likely to be, as if he had noticed things about her, perhaps even her feeling for Arthur Grampian. It was most annoying and disturbing.
