“I want you to stay for the night,” she said. “We can send a telegram to the Castle to say that I have kept you. I want you to stay a bit, Pen; you will, won’t you?”
“I am afraid I can’t, for Honora wants me to go home.”
“You call Castle Beverley home?”
“Just for the present, and it is nice to feel that I can speak of it as such.”
The other ladies lingered round for a minute or so, but having no excuse to listen to Brenda and Penelope, they retired, leaving the two sisters and the three Misses Amberley alone.
“Children, you would like Pen to stay, wouldn’t you?”
“Oh, yes, of course,” said Fanchon.
“And you three could just for one night sleep all together.”
“It wouldn’t be at all comfortable,” said Nina, “but I suppose we could.”
“You would have to sleep at the foot, Nina,” said Fanchon.