I hoped I should find her with you." If Mrs.Brook cast about it was but for a few seconds.

"If she had known you were coming she would certainly have been here.

She wanted so to please you." Then as her visitor took no further notice of this speech than to ask if Nanda were out of the house she had to admit it as an aggravation of failure; but she pursued in the next breath: "Of course you won't care, but she raves about you." He appeared indeed at first not to care.

"Isn't she eighteen ?"--it was oddly abrupt.
"I have to think.

Wouldn't it be nearer twenty ?" Mrs.Brook audaciously returned.