'Oh yes, I know! Mr Coniston said: "The Spanish artists painted—to a man—in monochrome." I can't explain it, Archie. It doesn't matter. Why did you leave Miss Clay and come back to us?'
'Why, I like her all right, but you get tired of talking to women. I get bored with Dilly sometimes.'
'Then you're looking forward to going back to school?'
'I shall like the society of boys of my own sex again,' he said grandly.
'You're not always very nice to Dilly, Archie. I've noticed when anything is given to her, you always snatch at it. You must remember Ladies first.'
'Yes, that's all very well. But then Dilly takes it all, and only gives me what's left.'
Archie looked solemn.
CHAPTER XII
'Edith,' said Bruce, next morning, with some importance of manner, 'I've had a letter from Aylmer—Aylmer Ross, you know—asking me, most particularly, to call on him.'
'Oh, really,' said Edith, who knew it already, as she had asked him to write to Bruce.