“Why do you want to go there?” asked her parent.
“I have had a letter from Angela St. Just. She is most anxious to see me.”
Ethel very nearly dropped the cup of tea which she was raising to her lips.
“Angela St. Just?” she murmured under her breath. Even Mr Aldworth looked interested.
“Do you know her?” he asked.
“Of course I do; she was one of Mrs Silchester’s pupils. She wants me to go and see her, and, if I can be spared, to spend a little time there in the summer. I have had a long letter from her.”
“She was a remarkably handsome girl; I remember that,” said Mr Aldworth. “Well, to be sure, and so she was at that school.”
“You forget, father,” said Marcia, “that Mrs Silchester is Sir Edward St. Just’s sister-in-law.”
“Indeed? That is news.”
Horace made one or two remarks.