"Does your mother know?"
"She knows nothing."
Janet stared. "Then what?" she asked abruptly.
Sally dropped into a chair. "Mrs. Priestly—Maurie's mother—is being divorced. They found it out to-day in the papers. Maurie's not her husband's child. They packed him off at once; weren't even going to send any one with him. I said I'd go. Mother said if I did, she'd never have me in the house again. That didn't make any difference to me. I was going in any case."
"Why?"
"A Mr. Grierson down there, asked me to marry him. I couldn't consent without telling him."
"You told him?"
"Yes."
"What did he say?"
"Not very much. Just that at first he couldn't believe it. Then, when he saw I was telling the truth, he said nothing."