‘Oh yes!’ she replied, carelessly. ‘This letter for me? What has Mrs Haynes got to say, I wonder?’
She opened the envelope, and began to glance hurriedly over the sheet of paper. Then her face changed.
‘What do you think? Mr Yule is dead!’
Dora uttered an exclamation; Jasper displayed the keenest interest.
‘He died yesterday—no, it would be the day before yesterday. He had a fit of some kind at a public meeting, was taken to the hospital because it was nearest, and died in a few hours. So that has come, at last! Now what’ll be the result of it, I wonder?’
‘When shall you be seeing Marian?’ asked her brother.
‘She might come to-morrow evening.’
‘But won’t she go to the funeral?’ suggested Dora.
‘Perhaps; there’s no saying. I suppose her father will, at all events. The day before yesterday? Then the funeral will be on Saturday, I should think.’
‘Ought I to write to Marian?’ asked Dora.