"What have you to say for yourself? No, I'm not joking. I particularly wanted to avoid being mixed up with these Medlands one bit more than we could help, and, directly my back is turned, you go and——"
"Have you seen Alicia yet?" asked Dick.
"Seen Alicia? No, not to talk to."
"Well then, keep some of it. Don't spend it all on me. You'll want it, Mary."
"Dick, you're very impertinent. What do you mean?"
Dick was about to answer, when he saw Eleanor frowning at him. He raised his brows. Eleanor rapidly returned the signal.
"She flirted disgracefully with Sir John," he said.
"How dare you make fun of me like that? It was most foolish and—and wrong of you. I shall speak to Willie about it."
"I thought it was the constitutional thing to do," pleaded Dick, but Lady Eynesford was already on her way to the door, and vanished through it with a scornful toss of her head.