'Very much,' she replies, 'I have never been to an English theatre before, you know, but it was awfully sad.'
'Sadder if it had been the man wronged,' he says—
Philippa looks up with a laughing retort about each one for himself, but he seems so very grave that she refrains and wonders why he said that, but it is sometime before she finds out.
CHAPTER II
'A face in a crowd, a glance, a droop of the lashes, and all is said.'—Marion Crawford.
It is some days later, and having a ball in prospect, Mrs Seaton has left Philippa to rest, whilst she goes on a round of visits; and Philippa, nothing loth, settles herself comfortably on the sofa with a book, and prepares to enjoy a lazy afternoon, but she is destined to interruption. The door suddenly bursts open and Teddy flies in, with 'Oh, Aunt Lippa, will you come into the Square with me. Marie's sister has come to see her and it would be kind to let them be together, don't you think—'
Lippa feels inclined to suggest that it would be just as kind to let her alone, but she refrains and merely says 'Well?'
'Will you?' asks the little boy, emphasizing his words by leaning heavily against his aunt. 'You see,' he continues, 'I do feel sometimes lonely, 'cos Marie's old and won't run, and I think you look as if you could—'
'I have done so in the course of my life,' she answers laughing, 'and I might be able to do so again.'