I am quite free, aunt." "Good.

I may take it for granted, then, that you have formed no ties of any kind ?" May shook her head, smiling as though at a thought which the words suggested, a thought not unpleasing, but not at all difficult to dismiss.

Thereupon Lady Ogram began to talk freely of her projects.
"I shall go up to town in a fortnight--at the end of this month.

Of course you must have some things, dresses and so on.

I'll see to that.
Before we leave Rivenoak, I should like you to meet a few people, my friends at Hollingford particularly, but in a very quiet way; I shall ask them to lunch with us, most likely.