Almost everybody assented, presumably because they were relieved at having the thing postponed for an hour or two.
“What about Mrs. Harter?” Martyn suddenly inquired.
She was not present.
“If it’s to be the last rehearsal we ought to do the thing properly and have her song at the beginning and at the end.”
“I can send her down a note,” said Claire.
“I’ll fetch her on my motor bike,” young Martyn volunteered.
He is not always so ready to put himself out on behalf of other people.
“Does Martyn admire Mrs. Harter?” I had the curiosity to ask his sister later.
“It’s mostly that he’s so frightfully interested. The whole psychological situation, you know,” Sallie explained. “I think it’s interesting, too, but I don’t agree with him altogether that it’s her personality that makes it so. Bill, in his own way, is quite as well worth watching as she is.”
“You talk as though it were a cinematograph film being shown for your express benefit.”