“Well, yes. However, I was told you were English.”
“Indeed!”
“Yes, by the boy who seems to be in your company.”
“Gerald Lane? Yes, he is in my company.”
“I know the boy.”
“Indeed?”
“Yes, and I knew his father before him. He and I were young men together.”
“He must have been glad to meet you. He is an excellent boy.”
“I am glad you like him,” said Wentworth, but there was something unpleasant in his tone, that did not escape the attention of Noel Brooke.
“Don’t you feel friendly to him?” he asked keenly.