"I don't expect I shall need much showing," she said, with a little air of importance.
Her cousins both stared at her.
"You certainly will," said Herbert decidedly; "it isn't at all an easy house to find one's way about in, I can tell you. You would go blundering into all sorts of places you oughtn't to."
"Places we oughtn't to?" repeated Eustace in bewilderment.
"Yes, the servants' quarters, you know," said Herbert, as if he were talking to a child of eight.
"Aren't you allowed to go into the servants' quarters?" asked Nesta wonderingly.
"Oh, we're allowed, of course," said Herbert; "but one doesn't go. I dare say things were rather mixed out with you, though."
"What do you mean?" asked Eustace abruptly.
"Oh, you had to rough it rather, hadn't you?" said the elder boy. "I had a sort of idea you all had meals together."
"With the servants?" questioned Eustace.