‘No, who has it?’
‘We have had it, but we are quite well now. How cold you are!’
‘But where is my father?’
‘Gone to Hetherington with Robert, to meet Aunt Rotherwood. Come into the drawing-room.’
Here Emily glided off to perform a hurried toilette.
‘And the little ones?’
‘At Broomhill. Mrs. Weston was so kind as to take them out of the way of the infection,’ said Lily.
‘Oh! William, those Westons!’
‘Westons, what Westons? Not those I knew at Brighton?’
‘The very same,’ said Lily. ‘They have taken the house at Broomhill. Oh! they have been so very kind, I do not know what would have become of us without Alethea.’