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There would be no criticism from her , but unlimited good nature , a readiness to listen and to confide and a love for the details of operations and illnesses in which she had a kinship with Mrs. Banks . Indeed , though Mrs. Batty was fat where Mrs. Banks was thin , cheerful where she was gloomy , and in possession of a flourishing husband where Mrs. Banks irritably mourned the loss of a suicide , they had characteristics in common and the chief of these was the way in which they took to Henrietta . ` You must come to tea on Sunday , ' Mrs. Batty said . ` We are always at home on Sunday afternoons after four o'clock . I have two big boys , ' she sighed , ` and all their friends are welcome then . ' She lowered her voice . ` We do n't allow tennis -- the neighbours , you know , and James has clients looking out of every window -- but there 's no harm , as the boys say , in knocking the billiard balls about .