"I will have the tea, if you please," he answered, "and you shall have the news, such as it is."
"First of all then," she said, "I hear that you are leaving Medchester, giving up your business and coming to live in London, and that you have had some money left you. Do you know that all this sounds very mysterious?"
"I admit it," he answered, slowly stirring his tea. "Yet in the main—it is true."
"How nice to hear all about it," she sighed, contentedly. "You know I have scarcely had a word with you while my uncle and cousins were up. Selina monopolized you most disgracefully."
He looked at her with twinkling eyes.
"Selina was very amusing," he said.
"You seemed to find her so," she answered. "But Selina isn't here now, and you have to entertain me. You are really going to live in London?"
He nodded.
"I have taken rooms!"
"Delightful. Whereabouts?" "In Jermyn Street!"