"If you know where I live, you know who I am."
"I do know. You are Mrs. Austin's sister. Macallister told me."
Olivia frowned. She was not jealous, but sometimes she felt as if Jacinta's popularity swamped hers.
"What did Don Pedro tell you about my sister?"
"He said she ruled the English colony and at Las Palmas what she said went."
"Oh, well! Perhaps he did not exaggerate very much. Macallister does exaggerate, you know. But was this all?"
Kit was embarrassed. Macallister had said much more.
"He told me something about Mr. Austin and the wreck on the African coast."
Olivia pondered. She knew Macallister and noted Kit's embarrassment.
He occupied the post Austin had occupied. On the whole, Olivia was amused, but while she thought about it they passed the end of a path that turned off through the corn.