“We have been wonderfully served,” Francis assured him.
In the distance they could hear the sound of hammering on the other side of the wall. Francis moved his head in that direction.
“I hear that they are preparing for another of your wonderful entertainments over there,” he remarked.
“On Thursday,” Sir Timothy assented. “I shall have something to say to you about it later on.”
“Am I to take it that I am likely to receive an invitation?” Francis asked.
“I should think it possible,” was the calm reply.
“What about Margaret?”
“My entertainment would not appeal to her,” Sir Timothy declared. “The women whom I have been in the habit of asking are not women of Margaret's type.”
“And Lady Cynthia?”
Sir Timothy frowned slightly.