I couldn't say what. But I don't think I really had supposed anything—then.
"You needn't suppose things," she said. "Vee-Vee would never let us in.
Look here, Wally—you've got to trust me this time. I'm going to see
Vee-Vee through, and I'm going to see Jimmy through; but I can't do it if
you don't trust me. I can't do it if you interfere."
I said I did trust her, and that God knew I didn't want to interfere, but was she quite sure she was doing a wise thing?
She said, "Quite sure. Let's go and lie down in the pine-wood till tea-time. I wonder if Jimmy would mind us going into Midhurst with the car. We shouldn't hurt it, sitting in it."
We lay out in the pine-wood till we heard the bell for tea, which we had ordered a little before four, in case Jevons should wire for the car to meet him by the early afternoon train that got to Midhurst at four-sixteen.
The table was set as usual in the garden on the lawn in front of the house.
By four o'clock no wire had come from Jevons; so we knew we needn't expect him till a later train. He nearly always came by Waterloo and Petersfield and was met at Midhurst, which gave him his public. But he might come, as Viola had gone, by Victoria and Horsham and be met at Selham.
I remember saying, in a startling manner as the idea struck me,
"Supposing he comes by Victoria?"
And Norah said, "What if he does?"
And I, "They might meet at Horsham."