her ailment.  She was accompanied by her elder daughter, and Georgiana was left with her father.  Not a word was spoken between them.  He sat behind his newspaper till he went to sleep, and she found herself alone and deserted in that big room.  It seemed to her that even the servants treated her with disdain.  Her own maid had already given her notice.  It was manifestly the intention of her family to ostracise her altogether.  Of what service would it be to her that Lady Julia Goldsheiner should be received everywhere, if she herself were to be left without a single Christian friend?  Would a life passed exclusively among the Jews content even her lessened ambition?  At ten o’clock she kissed her father’s head and went to bed.  Her father grunted less audibly...