"You think that would be of use?"
"It would pacify this pride of Master Harry's perhaps."
Mina looked from one to the other.
"Do you mean there's anything possible?" she asked.
"My dear, you're a very good friend."
"I'm not very happy. I don't know what in the world Cecily will do. And yet——" Mina struggled with her rival impulses of kindness and curiosity. "It's all awfully interesting," she concluded, breaking into a smile she could not resist.
"That's the only excuse for all of us, I suppose," sighed Lady Evenswood.
"Not that I like the boy particularly," added Southend.
"Is there anything?" asked Mina. The appeal was to the lady, not to Southend. But he answered chaffingly:
"Possibly—just possibly—the resources of the Constitution——"