"Yes, miss?"
"Yes—the green one."
When the maid had taken the dress out Charmian said: "Why did you look at me as you did just now, Halton? I wish to know."
"I don't know, miss."
"Well, I have put something on."
"Yes, miss."
"I looked so sea-sick—yellow. No one wants to look yellow."
"No, I'm sure, miss."
"But I don't want—come and help me, Halton. I believe you know things I don't."
Halton had been with the lovely Mrs. Charlton Hoey before she came to Charmian, and she did know things unknown to her young mistress. Trusted, she was ready to reveal them, and Charmian went downstairs at three minutes past eight more ingenious than she had been at ten minutes before that hour.