But Hester had had tea before she started.
"And you are not cold?"
Hester was quite warm. The Bishop had ordered a foot-warmer in the carriage for her.
"You are looking much better."
Hester felt much better, thanks.
"And what lovely flowers!"
Hester suggested, with diffidence, that they would look pretty in the drawing-room.
"I think," said Mrs. Gresley, who had thought the same till that instant, "that they would look best in the hall."
"And the rest of the family," said Hester, whose face had fallen a little. "Where are they?"
"The children have just come in. They will be down directly. Come back to me, Toddy; you are boring your aunt. And James is in his study."