"Certainly, Mrs. Postlewaite," Stephanie answered.
"And bring Montague along. I want him to hear it too," the grande dame went on.
"What does it mean?" Stephanie whispered, as she and Pendleton passed toward the door.
"You heard what she called you: 'Stephanie, dear'?"
"Yes!"
"Then there isn't much doubt."
"But at this juncture!" she marvelled.
"Mrs. Postlewaite knows the exigencies and the juncture too, never fear. The turn has come, sweeth—I mean, Stephanie."
She shot him a bewildering smile; the next moment they stood in "the presence."