"No."

"Then, as a matter of fact, you don’t know her very well?"

"Never saw her till the day before yesterday."

Polly smiled.

"Aren’t you afraid you’ll feel rather strange here? How long do you expect to stay?"

"I don’t know."

"You don’t know? I’ve forgotten—where did Mrs. Russell say you lived?"

"In New York."

"That’s odd—very odd! I certainly understood her to say you lived in the country."

Angelica was dumb.