She answered softly.
'Yes.

I think she would--IF she really loved him.' 'What I haven't been able to make out is whether she did care--does care--for that chap.

You see, that would make a difference.' 'A difference! How?
What do you mean ?' 'I mean that I don't believe I should feel about her as I do if I wasn't going to meet her.

Look here, Joan, you've as good as told me--and if you hadn't, I'd be pretty thick-headed not to have put two and two together--that the Luke of her letters is Sir Luke Tallant, our new Governor.

Well, if she was staying with him in London, and his wife is a friend of hers, why shouldn't she come and stay with them out here ?' The idea had already presented itself to Mrs Gildea, but she tried not to show that it had, or that there had ever been any question of the sort in Bridget's mind.