"You have really made up your minds at last, then?" her hostess enquired, with interest.
"My dear," Sarah declared, "we've come to the conclusion that we can't afford to remain single any longer. We are both spending far too much money."
"I am sure I wish you luck," Josephine said earnestly. "I am very fond of Jimmy."
"He is rather a dear."
"I wonder how you'll like settling down. It will be a very different life for you."
"Of course," Sarah admitted with a sigh, "I hate giving up my profession, but there is a sort of monotony about it when Jimmy insists upon being my only fare."
"Is this the reason why Jimmy is making his great debut as a man of affairs?" Josephine asked.
"Not exactly," Sarah replied. "As a matter of fact, that was rather a bluff. His mother is so afraid of his starting in some business where they'll get him to put some money in, that she has agreed to allow him a couple of thousand a year until he comes in for his property, on condition that he clears out of the City altogether."
"That seems quite decent of her. Where are you going to live?"
"In the bailiff's cottage on the Longmere estate, which will come to Jimmy some day. Jimmy is going to take an interest in farming. So long as it isn't his own farm, his mother thinks that won't hurt."