"It's rather cruel," she said under her breath.
Silvette came in bringing a chilled fruit salad, bread and butter, cold chicken, and tea. "We'll have to put it all on at once. You don't mind, do you, Mr. Edgerton?"
He said smilingly but distinctly: "One's own family can do no wrong. That is my creed."
Diana looked up at him.
"I wondered whether you knew we were relations," she said, flushing deliriously.
"You see," added Silvette, "it was not for us to remind you."
"Of our kinship? Why not?"
"Because you might have considered it an added obligation toward us," said Diana, blushing.
"I do—a delightful one; and it is very gracious of you to acknowledge it."
"But we don't mean to presume on it," interrupted Silvette hastily. "Some day we really do mean to regulate our financial obligations toward you."