“No, no, not if ... is? Oh!” she stammered.

“She was taken quite of a sudden.”

“One can hardly yet believe it!”

“She’ll be a loss to her world, alas, poor Betty Bromley will.”

Miss Sinquier swallowed.

“I should like to attend the funeral,” she said.

“There’s no funeral.”

“No funeral?”

“No invitations, that is.”

Miss Sinquier turned away.