‘You!’
‘Yes; I must get into our new house, and receive my sisters there the day after to-morrow.’
‘I thought you lived with Miss Charlecote.’
‘Is it possible that you did not know what I have been doing all this week?’
‘Were you not preparing a house for your brother?’
‘Yes, and another for myself. Did you not understand that we set up housekeeping separately upon his marriage?’
‘I did not understand,’ said Humfrey Randolf, disconsolately. ‘You told me you owed everything to Miss Charlecote.’
‘I am afraid your colonial education translated that into £ s. d.’
‘Then you are not poor?’
‘No, not exactly,’ said Phœbe, rather puzzled and amused by his downcast air.