"I'm as right as rain, thanks," said Connie. "Just scribbling a line to Bill."
And she began:--
I have arrived quite safely, old man, and the most tremendously exciting things are happening here. Listen!
CHAPTER XIV
ANOTHER COSY CHAT, WITH AN INTERRUPTION
I
The victim, continued Connie presently, is now upon the sofa, wedged in between the Chief Ogress and the Assistant Tormentor. She is scared out of her wits, poor thing, but has stood up to the pair of them splendidly so far.
"It was good of you to come down to this poky little corner of the country, Miss Welwyn," Lady Adela was saying, handing Tilly a second cup of tea. "It is so nice when one's friends take one as they find one, is it not?"
Tilly, wide-eyed and quaking, was understood to assent to this proposition.
"You live in town, I understand?" continued Lady Adela cautiously.