"Which?"
"The son, of course."
"He never stole anything from me."
"Don't be a goose! Do you think he means what he says?"
Evelyn paused before replying.
"You don't?" said Lucy quickly.
"I was trying to remember anything he did say," Evelyn answered very deliberately. "The only remark I can remember addressed to myself was, 'Brute of a day, isn't it?' I think he meant that. He certainly looked as if he did."
"Douglas," said Lady Munro, "would Colonel Monteith allow his son to marry Lucy Reynolds?"
"Nonsense! what ideas you do take into your head!"
"Because, if he would not, things have gone quite far enough. George said something to me about coming back to Cannes for a day or two. Of course that child is the attraction. If you think it will end in nothing, he must not come."