"But he will come back, you think?"
"He says so. Antoinette, say nothing—not a word more—about him to Rotha. She has got her head turned, and it is best she should hear nothing whatever about him. I shall take good care that she never sees him again."
"Mamma, he don't care for her?"
"Of course not. He is too much a man of the world."
There was silence.
"Mamma," Antoinette began after a pause, "do you think Rotha is handsome?"
"She is very well," said Mrs. Busby in an indifferent tone.
"They think at school, that is, the teachers do, that she is a beauty."
"I dare say they have told her so."
"And you see how Mrs. Mowbray has dressed her up."