“No, he is no help in a business sense, but he put the money into the concern. What are you going to do to-day, Julia?”
Julia looked up in unmitigated astonishment. “To-day—oh—ah—I shall be out and about all day,” she returned promptly.
“I rather wanted you to go to town with me.”
“Awfully sorry, dear, I can’t go to-day,” Julia answered.
Regina felt exactly as she might have felt if someone had flung a pail of cold water in her face.
“I was going to the West End,” she said half hesitatingly. “I thought you might like to go and see this new milliner of mine.”
“I should have loved it,” said Julia, “if I had known before, but I’ve made several engagements for to-day.”
She did not vouchsafe any information as to her movements, and Regina hastened to explain things for Julia.
“You are going with one of the Marksbys?”