Mary, who was reading a magazine in a secluded corner, looked up.
"I saw Mr. Brooks in the morning," she remarked. "He told me that he was going to Enton to dine and sleep."
Selina looked at her cousin sharply.
"You saw Mr. Brooks?" she repeated. "Where?"
"I met him," Mary answered, coolly. "He told me that Lord Arranmore had been very kind to him."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Louise asked.
"I really didn't think of it," Mary answered. "It didn't strike me as being anything extraordinary."
"Not when he's coming here to dine to-night," Selina repeated, "and is a friend of papa's! Why, Mary, what nonsense."
"I really don't see anything to make a fuss about," Mary said, going back to her magazine.
Mr. Bullsom drew himself up, and laid down the paper with the paragraph uppermost.