"Then why the—why could not she come to us and do it?"
Lucy laughed. She began to hope that the storm was passing over.
"I suppose Mona would reply," she said, "that Cannes, like Cambridge, is an excellent place to play in."
"Then you don't know her address?"
"I don't know it positively. I think it is quite likely that she is with that cousin of hers in the north. She said once that she could do far more work in that bracing air."
"So she has gone there to prepare for this examination?"
"I believe she is working very hard."
"And when does the examination take place?"
"I have not heard her say when she means to go up. You see, Sir Douglas, my plans are Mona's, but Mona's plans are her own. She is not one to rush through her course anyhow for the sake of getting on the register, like—me for instance."
"I can believe that. It seems Mona told her aunt that she was leaving her old rooms, and that it would be well to address letters for the present to the care of her man of business. Is that what you do?"