"Thank you—I hope you will. You've had a pleasant time, I hope? Who are to be your river party?"
"Oh, just ourselves and one or two girls and men. Lord Rickmansworth is to be there a day or two, if he can. And—oh, yes, Mr. Haddington, I think."
"Isn't Haddington staying here?"
"I don't know. I understood not. So your party will break up," Kate went on. "Of course, Claudia can't stay when I go."
"Why not?"
"Really, Eugene, it would be hardly the thing."
"I believe my mother is not thinking of going."
"Do you mean you will ask Claudia?"
"I certainly cannot ask her to curtail her visit."
"Anyhow, Father Stafford goes soon, and she won't stay then."