"Just a shoot of pain—it's gone now."
While he described his dream, and while she pictured it, one of those flutterings had run up violently in her brain. It passed, but left its influence. "Absurd!" she agreed. "If ever you did quarrel with him—"
Percival laughed. "I never could, in any case."
"Are you very fond of him, Percival?"
Rollo was returning to London that day. "I simply hate his going away," Percival said. "I wish to goodness he lived here always. He wishes it, too."
CHAPTER VII
BURDON HOUSE LEASED: THE OLD MANOR OCCUPIED
I
It happened that within a very short time of that wish it was granted. Burdon House in Mount Street was let; Burdon Old Manor was permanently occupied.