"Yes, I am very happy. It's sweet of you to come. How did you manage it?"
Neither cared to pretend that Lady Eynesford would approve of such a visit.
"Oh, I slipped out," said Alicia, nestling beside her friend. "Poor child! What things you have been through! Still—you have Mr. Norburn."
"Yes; with him and father I really don't mind." She paused, and then there slipped out, in lower tone, a tell-tale "Much."
Alicia answered it with a caress.
"How brave you are!" she said. "Does—does he mind?"
"Mr. Norburn?"
"I meant your father."
"He has no time to mind now. We are fighting," said Daisy.