Mona here interposed.
"Jill, you are old enough to know better. You must not go to the vicarage at all, if you talk such nonsense."
"It isn't nonsense!" Jill said indignantly. "Mr. Arnold wants a wife, he said he did; and we're going to find one for him."
She rushed out of the room like a small whirlwind.
"Who is the happy lady, Jack?" asked Miss Webb inquisitively.
Jack was silent.
"Miss Falkner, you will have to assert your authority and stop this," said Mona, half laughing, yet half vexed.
"Let's tell, Jack," said Bumps, who loved giving information.
But Jack shook his head.