XIX
Miss Marquand had only been working at "The Beck and Call" for a week or so when Toby, Ben's youngest brother, paid his sister a visit.
"How nice to see you," said Ben, "but I hope you haven't come, like all the others, to reproach me for opening the place."
"Not me," said Toby. "I'm all for it. I want you to be in business and make money, because then I can borrow from you."
"My dear," said Ben, "are you broke again?"
"Absolutely," said her brother. "But have they really been pitching into you?"
"All of them but Uncle Paul," said Ben. "Even Aunt Agatha, but of course she doesn't count."
"Alicia, I suppose, wanted you to join her in Hove?" Toby inquired.