"Well, I don't know. Audrey is ambitious and will make you work, my dear boy, after you have had this long holiday. But there is one point to be settled straight away."
"What is that?" asked the Colonel and Ralph simultaneously, for the old dame looked wonderfully serious.
"Is the girl to be called Audrey or Elsie?"
"I shall call her Elsie," said Ilse, promptly, "after her mother, my dear wife, and I am sure Ralph will not object."
"No," said Ralph, after a pause, "I don't think I shall. In fact, when I get used to the change of name I shall prefer it, as I should like all memory of Audrey's connection with the Branwins to be forgotten."
"Well, call her Elsie," said Lady Sanby, "and the sole memory of a very disagreeable time will be the two thousand a year."
"Which ought to be given to charity," said Ilse, abruptly.
"Give it to Miss Pearl," suggested Lady Sanby.
"No, no," said Ralph, with great common sense, "we shall keep it. Sir Joseph owes Audrey something for the way in which he treated her."
Lady Sanby arose. "You said that before," she remarked. "My dear boy, you are beginning to repeat yourself, so it is time you went."