“No.”
“John Exton has been badly wounded—left arm amputated at the elbow.”
“Oh, Tiddy——! I’m ever so sorry.”
Lady Selina said calmly:
“So am I. My memories of John Exton are not of the happiest, but I wish him well—I wish him well.”
“Agatha says that a truly united couple can worry along with three arms between them. John will get his discharge and come home to his father. Agatha means to marry him at once.”
Cicely observed pensively:
“How odd of Arthur not to have told me.”
“My dear child . . .!” Lady Selina raised a voice as soft as her hands. “You can’t complain if dear Arthur’s mind is full of one young woman.”
“We only heard the news yesterday,” said Tiddy.