"I should think it would!" Edith agreed, laughing.
"Did I speak?" said Angelica.
"Yes," Edith answered. "You informed me that you are going to stay here in order to punish Diavolo by depriving him of your society for a time."
"I am sure I did not say all that!" Angelica exclaimed.
"Well, not exactly, perhaps," Edith confessed; "but you led me to infer it."
"Well, I will stay," Angelica decided. "Aunt Fulda, I'm going to stay here for a few days with Edith," she answered.
"Very well, dear," her aunt meekly rejoined. "Are you going to stay now?"
"Yes. Tell Elizabeth to bring me some wearing apparel."
As they drove back to Morne, Lady Claudia scolded Lady Fulda for so weakly allowing Angelica to have her own way in everything.
"I thought you would agree with me that the sweet womanly influence at the palace would do her good," Lady Fulda answered, in an injured tone.