"How have you all been getting on?" Grantley asked, as he took the reins and settled himself beside her.
"We've done excellently since you went away. Of course we've been upset about this horrible business, but——"
"Otherwise you've done very well?" he smiled.
"Oh, yes, very!"
"Since I went away?"
"Yes, since you went away," Christine repeated.
"Perhaps it's not a very good thing for me to come back?"
"We can hardly banish you from your own house."
The concession was grudging. Grantley laughed, and the tone of his laugh brought her eyes sharply round to his face.
"You seem very cheerful," she remarked with an accusing air.