'When may I come and talk to you?'
'Hello, Mrs. Thomas!' Vida turned and found the Lady Sophia at her side. 'Why, father!—Oh, I see, Miss Levering. Well'—she turned to the woman in the corner—'how's the House of Help?'
'Do you know about Mrs. Thomas's work?' Vida asked.
'Well, rather! I collect rents in her district.'
'Oh, do you? You never told me.'
'Why should I tell you?'
Ernestine was dismissing the meeting.
'You are very tired,' said Lord Borrodaile, looking at Vida Levering's face.
'Yes,' she said. 'I'll go now. Come, Sophia!'
'We shall be here on Thursday,' Ernestine was saying, 'at the same hour, and we hope a great many of you will want to join us.'