'Does anybody know about this business?' Rollo asked after a slight pause. 'Not Josephine's mother?'
'Nobody. Annabella thought I might have some influencebut if I could not keep her from marrying Charteris in the first place What can be done?'
'I will try. But Wych, I am going to make one regulation.'
'Yes. Well?' said Wych Hazel, with a certain sheer at the name of "regulations."
'Whenever you go out in a carriage, here or in the country, I wish you always to be attended by a trustworthy servanteither Lewis, or Byrom, or Reo.'
'But my dear friend, in this case I could not have taken either.
Don't you see?'
'I do not see anything,' said Rollo lazily. 'Not even that I am your dear friend.'
'I have known you fail on that point before,' said Wych Hazel demurely. 'But the thing to see is that Mr. Rollo's regulations cannot always be carried out.'
'I cannot think of a case where I should allow the exception.'
'I'll tell you as they come. Then will you try what you can do with that wretch?' she went on eagerly.