‘I’m not sure that I do right in coming again so soon,’ said Marian as she took off her things. ‘Your time is precious.’
‘So are you,’ replied Dora, laughing. ‘It’s only under protest that we work in the evening when we have been hard at it all day.’
‘We have news for you, too,’ said Maud, who sat languidly on an uneasy chair.
‘Good, I hope?’
‘Someone called to see us yesterday. I dare say you can guess who it was.’
‘Amy, perhaps?’
‘Yes.’
‘And how did you like her?’
The sisters seemed to have a difficulty in answering. Dora was the first to speak.
‘We thought she was sadly out of spirits. Indeed she told us that she hasn’t been very well lately. But I think we shall like her if we come to know her better.’