Before Lashmar had been many minutes in the drawing-room, there entered Mrs.Woolstan, and she soon found an occasion for brief exchange of words with him.
"Why haven't you been to see me yet ?" "I'm so terribly busy.

Of course I ought to have come.

I thought of to-morrow--but now that we've met here, and are going to dine on the 27th--" "Oh, I know you _must_ be busy!" conceded Iris, with panting emphasis and gladness.

"How splendidly everything's going! But I want to hear about it all, you know.

Your letter about Rivenoak only made me eager to know more--" "We'll have an afternoon presently.