She sat bolt upright in the snow and adjusted her lorgnette to see if by any chance her grandniece could be one of those rowdy children.

She caught sight of the pair directly in front of her, and raised her lorgnette with a languid wrist.

She had lowered the lorgnette as I spoke, and he grabbed the hand which still held it, shaking it as warmly as if it belonged to some long-lost friend.

'I'm afraid,' I said, putting up my lorgnette, 'I do not altogether understand you, Mr. Gideon.

Alma Yawitz's grandmother wears lorgnettes, and you told me yourself they came from nearly the same part of the Pale as gramaw.