He cursed himself for the remark. All the pleasure and the light went out of her face, and she became again Miss Abbott of Sawston—good, oh, most undoubtedly good, but most appallingly dull.
It was over a year since Isabel had scrapped the old donkeys and engines and so on because they were so " dreadfully sentimental" and " so appallingly bad for the babies' sense of form" .
He always did. " Buried. You two girls had me buried" ! She heard his stick thumping. Oh, what would they say? What possible excuse could they make? It sounded such an appallingly heartless thing to do.