"Will it? But mamma, I want somebody every bit as good as Mr. Southwode."
Silence.
"Mamma," Antoinette began again, "did he ask you to come to Southwode?"
"No." Short.
"Only Rotha?"
Mrs. Busby made no reply. Another pause.
"Mamma, you said you could manage Mr. Southwode;—and you didn't do it!"