“If I were you I shouldn’t go about talking of the Aveshams as your relatives, particularly now they’ve come to live in the town,” she said; “it will only make people laugh.”
The Colonel glared at her a moment; he could literally not find words.
“Anything else, madam, anything else?” he asked at length.
The fit of recklessness was passed.
“No, that is all, Robert,” she said, listlessly; “I didn’t mean to make you worried.”
“I shall call there this afternoon,” he said, “and you will go with me.”
Mrs. Raymond brightened.
“Then you won’t take the children out?” she asked, with a ray of hope in her voice.
“Certainly I shall take them out,” he said, “and—and they shall come and call, too. Go and get your things on, all of you.”
“You won’t go far then, if you are to be back in time to call?” asked his wife.