"Possibly. He didn't tell me the reason. But Henrietta didn't come until nearly ten o'clock."
"Well!" The discomfited Letty devoted herself to her work for some minutes in silence. But she could not keep silent long. "So Dick gave you all that information, I suppose. I wondered how you got it all so pat."
"No," returned Mrs. Upjohn calmly. "I haven't seen Dick, to speak to, for a good while."
Miss Lambkin laid down her work. "Well, Alicia," she said slowly, "will you be good enough to tell me how you found out all that—right up to last night?"
"Better than that, Letty," Mrs. Upjohn replied. "I know what happened this morning, about half past seven."
"They ate their breakfast, I suppose," snapped Letty. "I could have told you that."
"They didn't have breakfast until eight," said Mrs. Upjohn.
"Oh, Lord!" cried Miss Lambkin in utter disgust. She had been tried beyond the bounds of reason.
Mrs. Upjohn laughed until the tears stood in her eyes. "As to my information, Letty," she said as soon as she could speak, "I pick it up here and there, and I use my eyes."
"As much as to say that you give a good guess. I thought I was pretty good at picking up information. But you have me beat, Alicia, I'm free to confess."