George Pendyce walked quickly forward, and disappeared beside her. There was a crunch of wheels; the brougham rolled away.
The Hon. Geoffrey Winlow raised his face again.
“Who was that, Benson?”
The coachman leaned over confidentially, holding his podgy white-gloved hand outspread on a level with the Hon. Geoffrey's hat.
“Mrs. Jaspar Bellew, sir. Captain Bellew's lady, of the Firs.”
“But I thought they weren't—”
“No, sir; they're not, sir.”
“Ah!”
A calm rarefied voice was heard from the door of the omnibus:
“Now, Geoff!”