1916. The novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward (Mary Arnold Ward), was the niece of the poet Matthew Arnold, and granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School who was immortalized as a character in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays. Lady Connie begins: Well, now we've done all we can, and all I mean to do, said Alice Hooper, with a pettish accent of fatigue. Everything's perfectly comfortable, and if she doesn't like it, we can't help it. I don't know why we make such a fuss. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.