He did when he had taken off his gloves and overcoat. There was a fire in the drawing-room, because we had been going to have games there with mother, only the telegram came about Aunt Ellie.
So we all sat on chairs in the drawing-room, and thought of nothing to say harder than ever.
Hilda did say, ‘How old are you?’ but, of course, we knew the answer to that. It was ten.
And Hugh said, ‘Do you like England or India best?’
And our cousin replied, ‘India ever so much, thank you.’
I never felt such a duffer. It was awful. With all the millions of interesting things that there are to say at other times, and I couldn’t think of one. At last I said, ‘Do you like games?’
So we all sat on chairs in the drawing-room, and thought of nothing to say harder than ever.
And our cousin replied, ‘Some games I do,’ in a tone that made me sure that the games he [p209 liked wouldn’t be our kind, but some wild Indian sort that we didn’t know.