You have found something, and better than usual Virgie.' 'Perhaps so.

Who knows?
Eat your slice of cake like a good child, and then I shall have something to tell you.' Obviously the two were excited.

Virginia moved about with the recovered step of girlhood, held herself upright, and could not steady her hands.
'You would never guess whom I have seen,' she began, when Monica was quite ready to listen.

'We had a letter the other morning which did puzzle us so--I mean the writing before we opened it.

And it was from--Miss Nunn!' This name did not greatly stir Monica.
'You had quite lost sight of her, hadn't you ?' she remarked.
'Quite.