It was all done so briskly and efficiently that it left Ayah and the children quite breathless, accustomed as they were to the leisurely methods of the East.
"Who is vat mem?" asked little Fay, as the taxi door was slammed by this energetic young person.
"Is she quite a mem?" suggested the accurate Tony. "Is she old enough or big enough?"
"Who is vat mem?" little Fay repeated.
"That," said Jan with considerable satisfaction in her voice, "is Meg."
CHAPTER IX
MEG
IT was inevitable as the refrain of a rondeau that when Jan said "that's Meg" little Fay should demand "What nelse?"
Now there was a good deal of "nelse" about Meg, and she requires some explanation, going back several years.
Like most Scots, Anthony Ross had been faithful to his relations whether he felt affection for them or not; sometimes even when they had not a thought in common with him and he rather disliked them than otherwise.