The Beauforts, the Best Thing the Beaufort's Can Do, Said Missus Archer

The next day, missus manson mingott was much better. She recovered her voice sufficiently to give orders that no one should mention the beauforts to her again. But in spite of her firm tone, old catherine did not wholly recover her former attitude towards life. The growing remoteness of old age had blunted her never very lively passion for their troubles. For the first time, she became absorbed in her own symptoms and began to take a sentimental interest in certain members of her family. Her eminence as a valetudinarian now made him an object of engrossing interest. Missus mingott issued an imperial summons to him to come and compare diets