'No thank you,' said Miss Entwhistle.
He helped himself.
The coffee went.
'Perhaps,' said Miss Entwhistle in a very polite voice when the door had been shut by Chesterton, 'you'll tell me what it is you wish to say.'
'Certainly. One thing is that I've ordered the cab to come round for you to-morrow in time for the early train.'
'Oh thank you, Everard. That is most thoughtful,' said Miss Entwhistle. 'I had already told Lucy, when she said you would be down to-morrow, that I would go home early.'
'That's one thing,' said Wemyss, taking no notice of this and going on carefully filling his pipe. 'The other is, that I don't wish you to see Lucy again, either to-night or before you go.'
She looked at him in astonishment. 'But why not?' she asked.
'I'm not going to have her upset.'
'But my dear Everard, don't you see it will upset her much more if I don't say good-bye to her? It won't upset her at all if I do, because she knows I'm going to-morrow anyhow. Why, what will the child think?'