'Yes,' I answered, 'but I do not know her address.'
'I can no doubt find it out in an Army List,' he said. 'But from what Captain Knowlton told Mr. Windlesham, I fear little is to be gained in that direction.'
From that day nothing was the same, and I soon began to realise that my presence in the house was regarded as a nuisance. All my meals were solitary, and I seldom had enough to eat.
'Everard!' cried Mrs. Turton, directly I had finished breakfast two mornings after the above conversation, 'all the servants are very busy this morning, so you must make your own bed.'
If she had told me to stand on my head, I should not have felt more surprise.
'Don't you understand?' she demanded.
'Yes, Mrs. Turton.'
'Then why do you stand staring there? Please set about it at once.'
I went upstairs to the bedroom which I had occupied alone since the beginning of the holidays, and after staring at the bed for a few moments, I was about to strip off the clothes, when I heard a snigger at the door.
'Hullo, Susan!' cried Augustus.