‘Mine can go anywhere,’ said Miss Mohun, crumpling herself up in some mysterious manner under the fur rug, while they drove off, her luggage sticking far off on either side of the splashboard.
‘What, in the name of wonder, are you smuggling in there?’
‘If you must know, it is the body of a mummy over whose dissection you will have to assist.’
‘Ah! Rotherwood is coming.’
‘Rotherwood!’
‘And his little girl. Just like him. Lily gets a note this morning from London, telling her to telegraph if she can’t have them by the 5.20 train. I’ve just been ordering a fly. It seems that Lady Rotherwood, going to meet Ivinghoe at the station, coming from school, found he had measles coming out! So they packed off his sister to Beechcroft without having seen him, and thence Rotherwood took her to London.’
‘And is having a fine frolic with her, no doubt; but he might as well have given Lily more notice, considering that a marquess or two makes more difference to her household than it does to his.’
‘Oh! she is glad enough, only in some trepidation as to how Mrs. Halfpenny may receive the unspecified maid that the child may bring.’
‘How jolly we shall be! I wish Ada had come.’
‘I tried to drag her out, but it gets harder and harder to shake her up. You must come back with me and see her.’