“My wife?”
“About Clare?” exclaimed Mrs. Atkinson Brown.
Mrs. Hargreaves craned her head forward, like a bird reaching for its seed.
“I wonder—” she said.
Madge Vernon grinned at them all.
“It’ll be in the papers to-morrow, so you are all bound to know. Besides, why keep it a secret? It’s a thing to be proud of!”
“Proud of what?” asked Herbert in a frenzied tone of voice.
Madge Vernon enjoyed the drama of her announcement.
“Clare has been arrested in a demonstration outside the House to-night.”
“Arrested!”