"You will be surprised when I tell you where I have been," she said as her niece helped her to change her dress—"I have been to Highgate to see Mrs. Glynne."
"Auntie!" exclaimed Aldyth in a tone of surprise.
"Yes, I thought I should like to see Susie again; we were great friends at school, and now I know her son so well, I thought it would be nice to go and see her. And I am glad I went, for she seemed very pleased. I did not see Mr. Glynne, for he is at Woodham. The school reopened last week."
"Yes, I know," said Aldyth.
"She is a sweet woman," said Miss Lorraine, talking as fast as the exigencies of her toilet would permit. "They live in a tiny house; but everything is as neat and as nice as possible. Aldyth, what are you thinking of? Not that cap. And I saw the daughter, a pleasant girl, not pretty, but clever-looking."
"Oh, auntie, I wish you had taken me with you," exclaimed Aldyth.
"Oh, my dear, that would not have done at all," said her aunt, decidedly.
Aldyth coloured, and refrained from inquiring why it would not have done.
It was not without regret that she saw her aunt start for Woodham on the following day.
"It does seem strange that you should go home without me," she said. "If it were not that I am to be with mother, I should be sorry."