“I think it must have been that.”
“Well, that’s better,” said Van, “than if Mitchy had had to call him out.”
“Oh Mitchy—!” Mrs. Brook comprehensively sounded.
Her visitor quite assented. “Isn’t he amazing?”
“Unique.”
He had a short pause. “But what’s she up to?”
It was apparently for Mrs. Brook a question of such variety of application that she brought out experimentally: “Jane?”
“Dear no. I think we’ve fathomed ‘Jane,’ haven’t we?”
“Well,” mused Mrs. Brook, “I’m by no means sure I have. Just of late I’ve had a new sense!”
“Yes, of what now?” Van amusedly put it as she held the note.