morning,
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In effect she did not know enough of the world to think about it at all . Her cares were of a different order , chiefly caused by tenderness of conscience , and solicitude to keep the peace between the two beings whom she best loved . Two things were in her favour in this latter respect , one that they saw very little of each other , since Mr. Egremont seldom emerged from his own rooms till after luncheon ; and the other that Ursula 's brains ran to little but lawn-tennis for the ensuing weeks . To hold a champion 's place at the tournaments , neck and neck with her cousin Blanche , and defeat Miss Ruthven , and that veteran player , Miss Basset , was her foremost ambition , and the two cousins would have practised morning , noon , and night if their mothers would have let them . There need have been no fear of Ursula 's rebellion about the Cambridge honours , she never seemed even to think of them , and would have had no time in the more important competition of rackets . Indeed , it was almost treated as a hardship that the pair were forbidden to rush together before twelve o'clock , and that Ursula 's mother insisted on rational home occupation until that time , setting the example herself by letter-writing , needlework , and sharing in the music which was a penance to the girl , only enforced by that strong sense of protecting affection which forbade rebellion . But Alice could hope that their performances were pleasant to her husband in the evening , if only to sleep by , and so she persisted in preparing for them .