“Mr. Grimshaw is Dr. Pawley’s partner. From my knowledge of him, he’s the last man to leave a partner in the lurch.”
Whereupon Mrs. Rockram became so interjectional that we cannot attempt to follow her.
Cicely left the cottage, to find Grimshaw snowballing on the Green with some of the village children. He came towards her, laughing, looking, so she thought, like a jolly boy.
“How are you, Miss Chandos?”
Cicely wasted no time.
“What is this story about your leaving us?”
His face became slightly impassive as he replied:
“The good Mrs. Rockram has been indiscreet, I see.”
“But—are you going? And where? Do, please, satisfy my curiosity.”
“Are you curious?”