‘Why is Mrs Lane so affectionate all at once? Take your things off; I have nothing to do.’
‘Miss Radway was going as well.’
‘Who’s Miss Radway?’
‘Don’t you know her? She’s staying with the Lanes. Maud says she writes for The West End.’
‘And will that fellow Lane be with them?’
‘I think not.’
Jasper mused, contemplating the bowl of his pipe.
‘I suppose she was in rare excitement?’
‘Pretty well. She has wanted to go to the Gaiety for a long time. There’s no harm, is there?’
Dora asked the question with that absent air which girls are wont to assume when they touch on doubtful subjects.