“Must you?” remarked Godfrey, looking disappointed.
“Yes, I must. And so must you. Your father is coming back by the five o’clock train, and I advise you to be there to meet him. Perhaps I shall see you to-morrow some time.”
“I can’t,” exclaimed Godfrey in a kind of wail. “I am to be taken off to a school in some town or other, I forget which, that my father has been examining. I suppose it is the speech day, and he proposes to introduce me as a kind of object lesson because I have passed first in an examination.”
“Yes, as a shining example and—an advertisement. Well, perhaps we shall meet later,” and without giving him an opportunity of saying more she vanished away.
CHAPTER XV
FOR EVER
Godfrey managed to be late again, and only reached home five minutes after his father, who had bicycled instead of walking from the station as he supposed that he would do.
“I forgot to give orders about your lunch,” said Mr. Knight tentatively. “I hope that you managed to get some.”
“Oh, yes, Father; that is, I lunched out, at the Hall.”
“Indeed! I did not know that Sir John had arrived.”
“No, he hasn’t; at least I have not seen him. I lunched with Isobel.”