She was instantly defiant on that.
“Well, and what had he to say for himself?”
“Nothing you would understand.”
“Heuh! Clever, aren’t you, you two, when you get your heads together.”
She began to lay supper. “I’m hungry,” she said. “I’ve not felt like eating while you’ve been away. Where you been?”
“Away,” he answered. “Out of London.”
“To your home?”
“No.”
“I thought you’d have gone to your home.”
“There’s nothing to take me there. I’ve been with friends.”