tinctly popped up in her on the advent of her girl
hood's friend. The way the cat would jump was
always, in presence of anything that moved her, in
teresting to see; visibly enough, moreover, for a
long time, it hadn't jumped anything like so far.
This, in fact, as we already know, remained the mar
vel for Milly Theale, who, on sight of Mrs. Lowder,
found fifty links in respect to Susie absent from the
chain of association. She knew so herself what she
thought of Susie that she would have expected the
lady of Lancaster Gate to think something quite dif
ferent; the failure of which endlessly mystified her.
But her mystification was the cause for her of an
other fine impression, inasmuch as when she went
so far as to observe to Kate that Susan Shepherd
and especially Susan Shepherd emerging so unin
vited from an irrelevant past ought, by all the pro
prieties, simply to have bored Aunt Maud, her confi
dant agreed with her without a protest and abounded
in the sense of her wonder. Susan Shepherd at
least bored the niece that was plain; this young
woman saw nothing in her nothing to account for
anything, not even for Milly's own indulgence:
which little fact became in turn to the latter's mind
a fact of significance. It was a light on the hand
some girl representing more than merely showed
that poor Susie was simply as nought to her. This
was, in a manner too, a general admonition to poor
Susie's companion, who seemed to see marked by it
the direction in which she had best most look out.

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