"Why, of course he will. Has some idea struck you?"
"I don't quite know," said Win. "But I should like to see the plans and perhaps some other day, you'll let me come down here again for a few moments."
CHAPTER XV
THE HAUNTED ROOM
"There is a letter for you, Miss Edith," said Nurse as the girls came in from school, the next Saturday. "It is for Miss Frances, too."
"For us both?" exclaimed Frances. "Where from?"
"Pierre brought it from the Manor," replied Nurse.
"I can't get over there being no telephones in the houses here," remarked Frances, snatching off her hat. "Imagine having to send a man with a note instead of just taking down a receiver and talking. Not to have telephones is so very English."
"The English don't hold much with new inventions, Miss," Nurse agreed.
"What was good enough for those before us does us very well."
"I know it!" sighed Fran, "but think of the convenience of a telephone."