The dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards. Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs. Dent and Mrs. Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa, and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence.
Lady Ingram e lady Lynn presero le carte, Bianca Ingram, dopo avere stancato col suo silenzio sdegnoso la signora Dent e la signora Eshton, si mise a canticchiare una romanza sentimentale accompagnandosi col pianoforte, poi andò a prendere un romanzo e si buttò sul sofà, preparandosi a passare, leggendo, le ore dell'assenza.