"A circus trick indeed!" said Sheila, as if speaking to herself. "How on earth did she do it?"
"She is like a boy in many ways," said Maud.
Sheila looked at her. "Yes. She is just like a boy, or at least—" Her look went further, reached Saltash who lounged on Maud's other side, and fell abruptly away.
As Toby came up with the two children, all of them flushed and laughing, Toby herself in her white frock looking like a child just out of school, she rose and turned to Bunny.
"We ought to go now," she said. "I am going to fetch the car round for
Dad."
"I'll do it," he said.
But she went with him as he had known she would. They left the group at the window and moved away side by side in silence as they had walked that afternoon.
Saltash stood up and addressed Maud. "I'm going too. Bunny is dining with me tonight. I suppose you won't come?"
She gave him her hand, smiling. "I can't thank you. Ask me another day!
You and Bunny will really get on much better without me."
"Impossible!" he declared gallantly, but he did not press her.