The Committee surveyed one another in consternation.
"None of us can't do it, that's quite plain," said Mrs. Welwyn. "They would think we had n't got a servant."
"They would be right, first time," confirmed Percy.
"The old family butler must do it," said Mr. Welwyn with a dry chuckle.
"You certainly overreached yourself in the matter of the butler, Sis," observed Percy.
"We could get the charwoman, or borrow the girl from the Rosenbaums," suggested Mrs. Welwyn.
"But I said a butler, Mumsie," objected Tilly dismally.
"Oh, dear, so you did," sighed Mrs. Welwyn.
Tilly pondered.
"I know what we can do," she said. "Percy must meet them, quite casually, outside in the Square, on his way home from the City--"