"So you came home at Christmas?"
"Yes, on Christmas Eve."
"Have you heard from any of them since?"
"Only once. I had a letter from Lady Violet a few weeks after I left, saying there was some disturbance about Lord Kenmore's property, or rather the property which he expected to get at his brother's death, and she was afraid he would be robbed of what rightfully belonged to him; but she did not say what the trouble was, nor who wanted to rob him. That was in January, and I have never heard since."
"Not from any of them?"
"Oh no. Now, will you tell me what you have been doing?"
"Well, things have brightened a bit for me. As I told Mrs. Douglas in my letter, I am better off than I was. I am leaving Mrs. Hall."
"Poor Mrs. Hall!"
"Yes, she seems sorry to lose me, good old soul!"
"Where are you going to live? At the other end of Birmingham?"