Crossword-Solution: PINSENT 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Miss Pinsent was certainly the last to underrate such a privilege:--“It’s so important, my dear, forming as we do a little family, that there should be some one to give _the tone_; and no one could do it better than Lady Susan--an earl’s daughter and a person of such determination.

Ainger now--who really _ought_, you know, when Lady Susan’s away--absolutely refuses to assert herself.” Miss Pinsent sniffed derisively.

She gave up her seat at table to oblige them--such a lack of dignity! Lady Susan spoke to her very plainly about it afterwards.” Miss Pinsent glanced across the lake and adjusted her auburn front.

One would have thought that might have been a lesson to Lady Susan.” Miss Pinsent resumed her knitting with a sigh.

Ainger does--but so prepared _not_ to like new people, that her taking to you in that way was a surprise to us all, I confess.” Miss Pinsent sent a significant glance down the long laurustinus alley from the other end of which two people--a lady and gentleman--were strolling toward them through the smiling neglect of the garden.