"How could she have supposed he was here ?" "Since he had not yet been to the house?
Oh it has always been a wonder to me, the things that mamma supposes! I see she asked you," Nanda insisted.
At this her old friend turned to her.

"But it wasn't because of that I got rid of him." She had a pause.

"No--you don't mind everything mamma says." "I don't mind 'everything' anybody says: not even, my dear, when the person's you." Again she waited an instant.

"Not even when it's Mr.Van ?" Mr.Longdon candidly considered.

"Oh I take him up on all sorts of things." "That shows then the importance they have for you.