"Quite right," returned Miss Frances.
"Name o' Clynesworth," said Selina.
"Perhaps," suggested Miss Dobson, "he wishes to sell something."
"A motor-car!" remarked Miss Frances.
"I suppose we ought to receive him," said her sister, and accordingly Jimmy was conducted to the drawing-room, where he at once began to make an almost abject apology.
"My only excuse," he concluded, "is that I have the honour to call myself a friend of Miss Rosser's."
"Our dearest niece," murmured Miss Dobson.
"You may know," said Jimmy, who had scarcely ever felt quite so nervous in his life, "that Bridget has been living at No. 5, Golfney Place!"
"Extremely unsuitable on all accounts," answered Miss Dobson.
"Extremely," said Miss Frances.