"What is it, Penny? Not bad news?"
"It's for Nan," returned Penelope shortly. "You can read it."
Kitty perused it in silence.
"Am in town. Shall call this afternoon on chance of finding you in.—ROOKE."
"The very last person we wanted to blow in here just now," commented
Kitty as she returned the wire.
Penelope slipped it back into its envelope and replaced it on the salver.
"Take it to Miss Davenant," she told the maid quietly. "And explain that you brought it to me by mistake."
CHAPTER VI
A FORGOTTEN FAN
Meanwhile, in the next room, Peter and Nan, having completed their scheme of decoration with "smilax and things," were resting from their labours and smoking sociably together.