‘No; I have been at Fairmead.’
You! To-day! How was Winifred?’
‘Better—I believe.’
‘How does she like the governess?’
‘I did not hear.’
Gradually something oozed out about Lucy having been happy and valuable, and after Sophy had gone to bed, he inquired how the courtship was going on?
‘Worse than ever,’ Albinia said.
‘I suppose it must end in this?’
‘In what!’
‘If there is no more satisfactory arrangement, I suppose we must receive Mrs. Meadows.’