“We came over here about a month after you were at our house.”
“You didn’t spend much time there, then?”
“Father had just made a good deal of money in Wall Street. He must have been making it when I was on the Mauretania. He wanted to leave New York, so we didn’t wait. We were in London all the winter. Then we went over to Paris. It was there we met Sir Thomas Blunt and Lady Julia. Have you met them? They are Lord Dreever’s uncle and aunt.”
“I’ve met Lady Julia.”
“Do you like her?”
Jimmy hesitated.
“Well, you see——”
“I know. She’s your hostess, but you haven’t started your visit yet, so you’ve just got time to say what you really think of her before you have to pretend she’s perfect.”
“Well——”
“I detest her,” said Molly crisply. “I think she’s hard and hateful.”