Some one
commenting on this, said, "They were certainly the stingiest and
probably the ugliest couple in England, yet their devotion to each
other was very beautiful. They could neither of them bear to part
with anything, not even with each other. After his death she was
like a watch that had lost its mainspring." "Surely," flashed Lady
Constance Leslie, "more like a vessel which had lost her auxiliary
screw." The main characteristic of both Lady Cork and Lady
Constance Leslie's humour was its lightning speed. It is
superfluous to add, with these quick-witted ladies it was never
necessary to EXPLAIN anything, as it is to the majority of English
people; they understood before you had finished saying it.
Many years after, in the late "eighties," Lady Constance Leslie's
two elder daughters, now Mrs. Crawshay and Lady Hope, developed a
singular gift. They could improvise blank verse indefinitely, and
with their father, Sir John Leslie, they acted little mock
Shakespearean dramas in their ordinary clothes, and without any
scenery or accessories. Every word was impromptu, and yet the even
flow of blank verse never ceased.
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