Mrs. Luttrell clasped her in her arms and kissed her forehead. Then after a little pause she said to Brian—
"We will stay."
Brian bowed his head.
"I will make all necessary arrangements with Mr. Colquhoun, and send him to you," he said. "I think there is nothing else about which we have to speak?"
"Nothing," said Mrs. Luttrell, steadily.
"Except Hugo. As I am going away from home for so long I think it would be better if I settled a certain sum in the Funds upon him, so that he might have a moderate income as well as his pay. Does that meet with your approval?"
"My approval matters very little, but you can do as you choose with your own money. I suppose you wish that this house should be kept open for him?"
"That is as you please. He would be better for a home. May I ask what Angela thinks?"
"Oh, yes," said Angela, lifting her face slowly from Mrs. Luttrell's shoulder. "He must not feel that he has lost a home, must he, mother?" She pronounced the title which Mrs. Luttrell had begged her to bestow, still with a certain diffidence and hesitancy; but Mrs. Luttrell's brow smoothed when she heard it.
"We will do what we can for him," she said.